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THE NORTHERN KENTUCKY SEARCHER VOLUME 2, NUMBER 46, DECEMBER 15, 2002 A
LITTLE MORE OF THIS AND A LITTLE MORE OF THAT
When we begin our radio program on January 6 from
We will be posting a sheet on the bulletin board for volunteers to answer
the phone during the program each day. We
will ask each person who volunteers to do so for a week at a time.
Through arrangements that Steve Martin has made with the phone company,
you will be able to do so from your own home.
A short time before each program we will transfer the calls from the
building to the different homes of volunteers, and you will answer, “This is
Bible Talk, from the Northern Kentucky Church of Christ” or something like
that. What folks will be calling you
for is to request correspondence courses, tracts, and other teaching aids we
will be offering. You will simply
take down their requests with their addresses.
The calls would probably need to be transferred from about
If the response is what we hope and pray it will be, there will be a
large number of requests. The
requests give more opportunities for others to help.
There will be things to be mailed out, courses to be graded, perhaps even
visits to be made. From an
advertising standpoint, all of us can tell people about the program, give them a
card with the pertinent information on it – the time, station, phone number,
and so on. I plan to make up a lot
of cards and have them available.
Everyone also has an important part in the program through our
contributions. While we have been
given a very good program rate, the time is not free.
It is being supported solely by our freewill offerings, given as we have
been prospered, on the first day of each week.
In addition, every single one of us needs to pray for the success of this
particular evangelistic effort. So you see, brethren, this is and must be a congregational effort. It takes us all, doing what we can to the best of our abilities, no one of us being more or less important, to make something like the radio program a good and wise use of the Lord’s money. It is as Paul wrote in Ephesians 4:16, “From whom the whole body, being fitted and held together by that which every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love.” Let’s give it all we have.
It has been my experience over the years that the most critical people,
the ones who are always ready to point an accusing finger at a brother or sister
in Christ, are the ones who do the least themselves.
Have you noticed this too?
In all my years I have never run into a brother or sister who complains
about how they are being treated by the congregation they attend or by the
elders of that congregation at the hospital visiting a sick member.
I have never had to give a complaining brother or sister directions to
the street that they were going to be passing out invitations to a gospel
meeting on because they never come to pass out invitations.
I have never known a brother or sister who visited the sick, who made
calls to those who were unfaithful, who took the time to write a letter of
encouragement to a brother or sister who needed it, who prepared food or offered
to clean a sick brother or sister’s home, ever complain about the lack of
attention they were getting.
Brothers and sisters in Christ who have truly given themselves over to
the Lord don’t have time to complain. They
are too busy loving “in deed and in truth” (1 John TOGETHER STILL
Let me hold your hand, as we go downhill, We’ve shared our strength, and we share it still It hasn’t been easy to make the climb But the way was
eased by your hand in mine. Like the lake, our life has had ripples too, Ill health, and worries, and payments due, With happy pauses along the way, A graduation, a
raise in pay. At the foot of the slope we will stop and rest, Look back if you wish; we’ve been truly blessed. We’ve been spared the grief of being torn apart, By death, or
divorce, or a broken heart. The view ahead is one of the best, Just a little bit farther, and then we can rest. We move more slowly, but together still, Let me hold your hand as we go downhill. (author unknown) Few things are more beautiful than faithful Christians who are husband and wife growing old together.
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