Don't be too discouraged with boys hearing the word and admitting it is true and not being convicted. I was a boy like that only I went to a Lutheran Church. The salvation message is there and it probably takes somebody like you and your wife to deliver it with meaning. It would be nice to reap the harvest but that is not always Gods timing.
With me the seed was sown several times because I had heard the salvation message many times but it took a difficult environment and meeting a fellow recruit at Ft. Benning Ga. to get it into my thick head. Don't be discouraged, do what God has commissioned you to do.
Buckaroo Commander OP#1 Woodstock Assembly Of God
206 E. Kimball Ave. Woodstock Il. 60098
Brian Wood wrote:
AllI had a "confirmation" this afternoon. To explain, there are things I have
heard many times and sort of accept as the truth but they somehow lack
personal conviction. Without boring you with the details, my wife has been
in charge of the starting up of a new Boy's Brigade Company. It is attached
to a local Methodist congregation. The minister (pastor) was/is very excited
because he used to be in the Brigade as a boy. Next Sunday is the annual
enrolment service. My wife's biggest fear is the embarrassment of only
having a few boys turn up. The reason for this is that a lot of the boys are
unchurched in any way and do not yet have a great sense of resposibility and
loyalty towards the Company (Outpost) nor chapel, nor do their parents.This got me thinking about why the minister had been so excited about a
Company being started. It certainly isn't any guarantee of bums (fannies?)
on seats. I then realised that he had experienced the Brigade as a boy and
was aware of what the program consisted of. It is a program which, like
Rangers, teaches boys about Jesus and salvation. I then realised that this
is the seed falling into the ground just as in the parable and just as we do
not know what makes the seed grow (despite what the scientists say) and come
to be ready for harvest neither do we know what God does in the lives of
these boys. The work between planting and harvesting is the Lord's alone.
Some seed will fall by the wayside, fall in shallow ground, get choked by
thorns but some seed WILL bear fruit. All I can do is sow and trust the Lord
for the harvest but sow I will and harvest there will be (probably reaped by
some pentecostal pastor who believes that he has done all the work <bg>).Strange that I have had this revelation after covering the subject of
parables with my BB class which currently consists of one boy.BoW.
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