“And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you:” – 1 Thess. 3:12
Show me a church where there is love, and I will show you a church that is a power in the community. In Chicago a few years ago a little boy attended a Sunday school I know of. When his parents moved to another part of the city the little fellow still attended the same Sunday school, although it meant a long, tiresome walk each way. A friend asked him why he went so far, and told him that there were plenty of others just as good nearer his home.
“They may be as good for others, but not for me,” was his reply.
“Why not?” she asked.
“Because they love a fellow over there,” he replied.
If only we could make the world believe that we loved them there would be fewer empty churches, and a smaller proportion of our population who never darken a church door. Let love replace duty in our church relations, and the world will soon be evangelized. – Moody’s Anecdotes
“And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;”– Phil. 1:9
David Stone
Lakeway Baptist Church
5801 FM 1960 E
Humble, TX. 77346
