A Moment With Pastor Fred

Kent Hughes tells the story of a woman living in Africa who became a Christian. She was blind, uneducated and 70 years old. She came to the missionary with her Bible and asked her to underline John 3:16. Mystified, the missionary watched her as she took her Bible and sat in front of a boy’s school in the afternoons. When school dismissed, she would call a boy over and would ask him to read the versed underlined.

“Do you know what this means?” she would ask.

Then she would proceed to tell them about Christ. That missionary reported that over the years 24 young boys gave their lives not only to Christ but also became pastors due to that dear lady’s work.

Dear friend, that’s our mission is it not?  Look again at the front of your bulletin. “Becoming fruitful disciples of Christ for God’s glory.” Each one of us has a ministry. Each one of us has been gifted somehow to serve Christ and his church. Sometimes it’s obvious how we are to serve. Other times it takes a little creativity like this dear African woman. Make this a matter of prayer. Ask God how he would have you serve. Warming a chair is fine but for the church to function properly each one must do his/her work. Eph 4:15-16, We are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.