Across town apostolics ... (was: Beards)

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Robert J. Brown wrote:

> I think that you see this wariness in old churches that have grown
> stagnant and unacustomed to seeing anybody new -- saint or sinner.
> You will not feel that way in a true revival church where every new
> person is viewed as either a candidate for the Holy Ghost or a worker
> to help others receive it.  It takes a *LOT* of work on the part of
> the pastor and ministers to feed such a revival church, but the work
> is so rewarding you only realize it is work when you realize that you
> and your wife haven't had an evening alone together in several weeks.
> The only way such a revival can continue is by recruiting the help of
> the saints, and by training them and teaching them and leading them
> and teaching them leadership principles as well as the Bible.  All
> these principles are in the Bible, and Jesus did the same thing, as
> did the early church.
> 

    AMEN! I don't see how Christians can sit at home and not be invloved in some kind of 
ministry! I enjoy helping out in different areas. I just wish I had time to do more!

  David