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Turkey Joke #1

October 17, 2017November JokesChristian, Humor, Jesus, joke, Life, november, Revelation 3, Thanksgiving, turkeykolbyking

What key won’t open any door?

A Turkey.

The Bible talks about a door too.

Jesus said, “Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will dine with him, and he with Me” (Revelation 3:20).

What is stopping you from opening the door of your life to Jesus Christ. He created you. He loves you and has great plans for your life. Why would anyone want to keep that “door” closed?

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Teaching in a Visual Way

October 17, 2017Children's Ministry, Children's Ministry Teaching TipsChildren, Church, effective, KidMin, kids, Ministry, show, Sunday School, Teaching, Tell, Visualkolbyking

Imagine I bring you your favorite meal. It’s everything you want. It looks delicious but it’s not on a shiny plate. I bring it to you on a dirty trash can lid. Did it suddenly lose its appeal?

Sometimes our problem in sharing God’s truth is not what we are saying but how we are say it. When planning to teach or preach, there are two important questions to ask:

What am I going to say?
How am I going to say it?

Most people stop with the first question. But in a visual culture, people will always learn best and remember longer what is brought to them in a visual way. In other words: Don’t just say it–show it.

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Seeing Above the Fog

October 12, 2017Stories that TeachDifficulties, Fear, Fog, Mark, Romans 8, Trust, Twainkolbyking

The story is told of how how Mark Twain in his later years was riding a steam boat up the Mississippi when the boat entered a patch of dense fog. The ship’s captain, however, didn’t slow down which greatly angered Twain. He immediately marched up the stairs to rebuke the captain for his carelessness. But when he reached the upper level, he could see what the captain saw. Instead of being blinded by the fog, he could see clearly above it.*

Sometimes you’ll face tough and scary circumstances – Situations where you don’t know what to do or why it’s happening. It’s like a fog but we have a God who sees clearly, who loves you and can turn all things to your good. You can trust Him.

“And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose” (Romans 8:28).

For More: Elisha is a great example of someone who looked beyond the situations he was facing to what God could do. Read and consider 2 Kings 4:38-6:23.

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*Source unknown.
© Copyright 2017 Kolby King

Kids Leading Kids to Christ

October 12, 2017Changed Lives, Children's Ministry, Storieskolbyking

Imagine a fourth grade student meeting another child in the McDonald’s play area. They play for a while. Then he asks, “Can I tell you about the greatest thing that ever happened to me?” The new friend responds yes and the child begins to share his salvation testimony. Soon the student is drawing on the back of gum wrapper a picture that walks his new friend through the plan of salvation and before long they are bowing their heads to move from new friends in McDonalds to new brothers in Christ.

Imagine a fifth grader at a sleepover. He has been thinking about sharing Christ with his friend and looking for the right opportunity and before the night is over his friend has accepted Jesus as his Lord and Savior.

Picture a fourth grader at Chick-Fil-A. He and his dad are getting ready to leave when he says that he feel that God wants him to go to the play area to tell the other children about Jesus. Dad sits down and watches as his son meets new kids, tells them about Christ, sits down with a girl and eventually leads her to saving faith in the Lord.

Imagine a second grader on the back porch with a neighbor. They talk about a lot of things but on this day he tells her what Jesus means to him and continues to tell her how he was saved and how she can do the same. Moments later his dad is across the street, talking to her mom about how she gave her life to Christ. Her mom wipes tears from her eyes and says, “Thank you.”

These are all true stories of kids leading kids to Christ. In the backyard, at school, in the cafeteria, on the bus, on the ball field, at church, and even on the playground, these children are doing more than just attending Sunday School—they are learning that God has given them a very significant task in everyday life.

If a child can do this…so can you. It simply begins with a willing heart.

One of our kindergarten students, who attended a Christian school, drove past a public school in our community. Her mom said, “You know, the teachers there can’t talk about Jesus.”

Her daughter was quiet for a moment and then said, “I want to go to school there.”

“Why?” the mom asked, surprised.

“Because someone has to tell them about Jesus.”

Isaiah said: “I heard the Lord’s voice, saying, ‘Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?’ Then I said, ‘Here I am. Send me!’” (Isaiah 6:8-9a).

You have the message. You have the opportunity. Like these children, will you have the willingness to share?

Learn HERE the same method of sharing Christ that the kids used in the stories above. It’s a great way to teach your kids to lead others to the Lord too…and it’s free!

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How God Touched a Life

October 12, 2017Changed LivesChanged, Faith, Forgiveness, Jesus, Life, lives, Peace, purpose, Salvation, Saves, Trustkolbyking

“I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone cry so hard.”

This past July I sat next to a 47-year old man who had attended one of our events. In the service I had shared about Jesus and Peter walking on the water.

“I just don’t know how much of that I can believe,” he said, with tears in his eyes. “I want to believe but how can I believe in a ‘good’ God when all I’ve ever seen is bad.”

He continued to tell me about his childhood and how, as an adult, he had gone to prison for attempted murder.

“I even have a 9-year old daughter that I’ve never met,” he said.

We talked. He struggled. God was moving in his heart. We talked about his life. We talked about Scripture, about how Jesus had called Peter to come and how Peter had stepped out of the boat. He didn’t need to have all the answers to simply trust.

I walked him through the plan of salvation. He asked questions and then he told me that he needed time to think. I asked if I could pray for him and as I prayed, he began to sob harder than I have ever seen anyone cry. Tears literally dripped in a stream from his face.

I gave him my phone number and told him to call and let me know how he was doing. He talked to me the next day.

“Last night,” he said, “I was washing my clothes and a pastor was there doing his laundry as well. We talked for three hours and I decided to surrender my life to Jesus Christ.”

It’s amazing how God puts people in the right place at the right time to share His love. God still changes lives!

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A Girl Named Victoria

October 6, 2017October Storieskolbyking

On Halloween night a few years ago, a 9-year old named Victoria came up to me after a fall festival event in their community. She was kind and sweet and I had seen her laughing as we had shared.

“I know I’m going to Heaven,” she said proudly.

“That’s great,” I said. “How do you know?”

“Because I’m good and try not to be mean to my brother.”

“Victoria, I’m glad you’re a good person,” I said, “but being good can’t get a person into Heaven.”

She paused for a minute. You could see her processing this information.

“Then how can I go to Heaven?” she asked.

I sat on the front row of their church and watched this young lady named Victoria accept Jesus as her Lord and Savior. It will always be one of my fondest Halloween memories.

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The Story of Squanto

October 6, 2017November StoriesCare, give, God, Provision, Squanto, story, thanks, Thanksgiving, William Bradfordkolbyking

Around 1608 Captain Hunt and a group of English traders landed in the new world at Plymouth, Massachusetts. When the trusting Wampanoag Indians came out to trade with them, the Englishmen took many of them prisoners and took them to Spain where they sold them as slaves.*

A boy, named Squanto, was bought by a kind Spanish monk who treated him with kindness, taught him to speak English and shared the Christian Gospel with him. Squanto eventually made his way to England where he worked in a stable. The owner of the stable, a man named John Slaney, took compassion on the young man and helped him make plans to return to America.

In 1619, a decade after he was kidnapped, Squanto returned to his home but his return was met with heartbreak. During his absence an illness had swept through his people and he had returned to find that everyone he loved was dead.

In 1620 the Pilgrims, seeking the freedom of worship and freedom from the influences of popular culture, sailed to the new world and landed at Plymouth, where Squanto’s tribe had once lived. As they settled in and began to build homes the leader of the tribe with whom Squanto now lived sent another English speaking Indian to greet them. Eventually Squanto helped them know how to fish and plant crops. He also translate a treaty between the new colonists and the Indians that lasted for 50 years.

According to the diary of William Bradford, the governor of the Pilgrims, Squanto “became a special instrument sent of God for [our] good . . . He showed [us] how to plant [our] corn, where to take fish and to procure other commodities . . . and was also [our] pilot to bring [us] to unknown places for [our] profit, and never left [us] till he died.”**

Years later, as Squanto lay dying with a fever, Bradford wrote that he “desir[ed] the Governor to pray for him, that he might go to the Englishmen’s God in heaven.” Squanto also left all his possessions to his English friends “as remembrances of his love.”

Squanto’s story is an amazing tale of how God turned tragedy and difficult circumstances to the good. Instead of dying with his people in the epidemic, God used the evil of his kidnapping to save Squanto’s life. Then God used Squanto to help save the lives of the Pilgrims, which helped to shape the future of our country. It is God’s goodness and provision even through difficult circumstances that we celebrate when we remember Thanksgiving.

As we approach the holiday season, let’s remember the true story behind the “feast.” And let’s remember that the Bible says, “In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you” (1Thess 5:18).

The Bible doesn’t say to give thanks in just the good and pleasing things, but in all circumstances. A follower of Christ can do this because no matter what happens, even if you don’t understand why, you know the One sits on the Throne. We don’t give thanks because we like what happened but because we know to whom we belong and that our lives are in His hands. We know the character of God and how He has promised to “work all things together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose” (Romans 8:28).

Happy Thanksgiving!

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Written and adapted by Kolby King from numerous sources.

*…it happened there had beene one Hunt … [who]seized upon the poore innocent creatures, that in confidence of his honestie had put themselves into his hands. And stowing them under Hatches, to the number of twentie foure, carried them into the Sraits, where he sought to sell them for slaves, and sold as many as he could get money for. But the Friers of those parts took the rest from them, and kept them to be instructed in the Christian Faith; and so disappointed this new and Devillish project.

A Relation of New England” in
Haklytus Posthumus or Purchas His Pilgrimes:
In Twenty Volumes (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1906) 19:272-3

**https://bible.org/illustration/story-squanto

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My Daddy Came

October 6, 2017Changed LivesChanged, evangelism, Jesus, Kolby King, Life, lives, New, saved, Saveskolbyking

A while back we were leading a VBS at a country church. On the final evening, a tall man walked through the doors. Even though his wife and daughter came to church regularly, he rarely came with them. But on this night, his little girl had tugged on his heart to attend. She had heard us say that we were going to get inside a 6-foot balloon for “family night” and she wanted her daddy to be there to see it.

“My daddy came,” she told me before the service started. I walked over and shook his hand and could tell that it didn’t seem that he really wanted to be there. But he had come because she had invited him.

As we used the 6-foot balloon, we shared the Gospel. We spoke about God’s love, how our sin separates us from Him, and how God can save anyone who is willing to receive Him.

At the end of the church service, this tall, rough-looking man turned to his wife and said, “I’m never coming back here again.” He stormed out of the church and sped off in his pickup.

I remember seeing the wife and the pastor’s wife praying and crying on the front pew of the church. The wife and daughter waited for about an hour before going home. She wanted to give him time to “cool off.”

When she arrived home, his pickup was in the driveway but he wasn’t in the living room. She opened the bedroom door. There he was. She could tell that he had been crying.

“I’m sorry,” he said. “But when I heard them say that God could forgive anyone, it made me mad because I knew that God could never forgive me.”

Then he continued to explain how he had come home, gone in the bedroom, and in anger, he had begun telling God all the reasons why he could never be forgiven, all the reasons why God could never love Him.

“Suddenly,” he said, “I found myself on my knees. It was like there was a presence in the room that I had never felt before. I found myself telling God that if he would take me, I would come. I don’t know how to explain it, but God saved me tonight.”

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Thanksgiving in a Blender

October 6, 2017Children's Ministry Illustrations, Object LessonsColossians 3, idolatry, idols, illustration, Jesus, put God first, Thanksgivingkolbyking

The following is written as an object lesson but can be used at home for a family devotion too:

Keep some left-overs from your Thanksgiving meal. Introduce each of them one at a time—i.e., “I have some Turkey. How many of you ate Turkey on Thanksgiving?” Then put some of the turkey in a blender. “How many of you ate some cranberry sauce?” Put some in. Keep going until you have put in a little bit of everything you ate on Thanksgiving in the blender—some bits of a roll, some green beans, some gravy and pumpkin pie with a bit of whip cream, etc. Then blend it all together and choose a couple of brave volunteers to come and taste your Thanksgiving shake. (You might want to have a trash can nearby just in case one of your volunteers has a weak stomach. This rarely happens but it is best to be on the safe side.) The taste probably won’t be too bad, but the texture is usually nasty.

Spiritual Application: We all like the things we put in here. I like turkey. I like pumpkin pie. I like gravy, but when it’s all put together, it’s a nasty mess. There are a lot of good things in life too. Sports are fun. Games are great. Friends are important, but when anything good becomes more important that Jesus, that good thing becomes a bad thing. Jesus should always be the most important thing in your life.

What is an idol? (Anything in your life that more important to you than following and knowing God.)

What are some idols that people have? (money, sports, success, etc.)

Is there anything in your life that is more important to you than following Jesus?

Read and discuss Colossians 3:1-4 from your Bible.

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Second Chances

October 6, 2017Stories of God's Goodnesschance, Football, Forgiveness, repent, Romans 3:10, Romans 3:23, second, Sinkolbyking

On New Year’s Day, 1929, Georgia Tech played UCLA in the Rose Bowl. In that game, a man named Roy Riggles recovered a fumble for UCLA. Somehow Riggles became confused and started running 65 yards in the wrong direction. One of his own teammates finally outdistanced him and tackled him just before he scored for the opposing team. When UCLA attempted to punt, Tech blocked the kick and scored a safety, which was the ultimate margin of victory.

That strange play came in the first half, and everyone watching the game was asking the same question, “What will the coach do with Riggles in the second half?” The players filed off the field and went into the locker room and sat down on the benches and the floor—all but Riggles. He put a towel around his shoulders, sat down and put his face in his hands.

A coach usually has a great deal to say to his team during halftime, but that day Coach Price was quiet. No doubt he was trying to decide what to do with Riggles. Then the timekeeper came in and announced that there were only three minutes left till playtime. Price looked at the team and said simply, “Men, the same team that played the first half will start the second.”

The players got up and started out—all but Riggles. He didn’t budge. The coach looked back and called to him again. Still he didn’t move. Coach Price went over to where Riggles sat and said, “Roy, didn’t you hear me? The same team that played the first half will start the second.” Then Riggles looked up and said, “Coach, I can’t do it to save my life. I’ve ruined you. I’ve ruined the University of California. I’ve ruined myself. I couldn’t face that crowd in the stadium to save my life.”

The Coach said, “Riggles, get up and go on back. The game is only half over.” And Roy Riggles went back, and those Georgia Tech players will tell you that they never saw a man play football like Roy Riggles played in that second half. What a coach!*

Reflect

Read Romans 3:10-12, Romans 3:23 from your Bible.

Respond

We’ve all gone the wrong way. Sometimes these are unintentional mistakes and sometimes they are willful disobedience. But, like the coach in the story, God gives second chances.

In life, are you running the wrong way? Are you ready to turn around? Are there sins in your life that you need to turn from and from which you need to ask God’s forgiveness? How can you share God’s love and forgiveness with others?

Your thoughts?

What prayer requests do you have for yourself and others?

Remember

1 John 1:9 says, “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”

*Source Unknown

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Relying on God

October 5, 2017Stories of God's GoodnessCare, George Mueller, God, Matthew 6, Philippians 1:6, Provides, Provision, storykolbyking

Bristol, England. Tuesday, February 8, 1842

Enough food remained in George Mueller’s orphan houses for that day’s meals, but that was it. There was no money to buy bread or milk for the following morning. And two of the orphan houses needed coal.

Mueller believed that if God sent nothing before nine o’clock on Wednesday morning, “His name would be dishonored.” Tuesday afternoon nine plum cakes arrived from a kindly sister. But the situation was still grim, as Mueller noted in his diary: “Truly, we are poorer than ever; but, through grace, my eyes look not at empty stores and the empty purse, but to the riches of the Lord only.”

Any other man responsible for the continual care and feeding of scores of children would have been climbing the walls. But Mueller believed in a God who is eternally faithful. He had, in fact, bet his entire career on the proposition that such a God could be relied upon implicitly and exclusively.

Mueller would not be disappointed. Wednesday morning just after seven he walked confidently to the orphan house on Wilson Street to find out how his Lord was going to provide food for that day. Mueller discovered that the need had already been met. A Christian businessman walking to work early that morning had suddenly wondered whether “Mueller’s children” might need funds. He decided to take something by the homes that evening. But, he later said, “I could not go any further and felt constrained to go back.” The man delivered three sovereigns just in time to make purchases for the orphan’s breakfast.

Timely provisions like this came in to Mueller’s homes countless times in his more than six decades of work. Never once did the orphans lack for food or clothing. There was always enough, sometimes just enough, but the children never knew a moment’s anxiety.

Mueller’s work was entirely supported by donations. During his 63-year career nearly 1,500,000 pounds was given, enough to care for some ten thousand children and to build several orphanages. It was quite an undertaking: two thousand children to be fed each day, their clothes washed and repaired, five large buildings to be kept up, matrons, overseers, nurses, and teachers to be paid.

And, according to Mueller, over these six decades God never missed a step. No child ever went without a meal; no baker or milkman ever settled for an IOU.

But now we come to the real catch: George Mueller accomplished all this without ever once asking a soul for a penny and without ever making any needs known. This man had embarked on his enterprise as a grand experiment. He wanted “something that would act as a visible proof that our God and Father is the same faithful God as ever he was…to all who put their trust in Him.” So this devout believer decided to demonstrate that the Almighty “had not in the least changed” by the fact that “the orphans under my care are provided, with all they need, only by prayer and faith, without anyone being asked by me or my fellow-laborers, whereby it may be seen, that God is faithful still, and hears prayer still.”*

Reflect

Read Matthew 6:25-34 and Philippians 1:6 from your Bible.

Respond

God will never lead you to a task that He will not equip you with all you need to accomplish that task. God always provides what we need to serve Him effectively, but sometimes (like Abraham who was promised an heir) we get impatient and try to work out God’s purposes in our own strength, resources, and timing.

How are you relying on God’s strength to accomplish the life and ministry to which He has called you? How has God provided you with the resources you need to be effective in serving Him? (God built some of these resources into you before you were born!) What are you trusting God to do in and through your life?

Your thoughts?

What prayer requests do you have for yourself and others today?

Remember

Many believers expect too little from a God who can do all things. What are you trusting God for in your life and ministry that no man could accomplish apart from the moving of the Holy Spirit?

*Mosley, Steven R., God: A Biography, (Phoenix: Questar Publishers, Inc., 1988), p. 230-232.

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God’s Protection

October 5, 2017Stories of God's Goodnesskolbyking

Beatrice, Nebraska. March 1, 1950

Everyone had a good excuse that Wednesday evening for being late to 7:30 choir practice at the Baptist Church. Ladona Vandegrift, a high school sophomore, always came early. But on this night a thorny geometry problem detained her. Torena Estes and her sister Sadie were ready to leave home on time. But their car wouldn’t start.

Mrs. Schuster could be counted on to arrive ten minutes early for practice. But she was held up at her mother’s house preparing for a later missionary meeting. Pastor Klempel and his wife, always punctual, didn’t make it at 7:30 either. His wristwatch, usually very accurate, was five minutes slow this evening.

Joyce Black felt it was so cold that she waited till the last possible minute to leave—a few minutes too long. Harvey Ahl had been invited over to a friend’s home for dinner and in the pleasant conversation lost track of time.

Even Mrs. Paul, the choir director, failed to arrive on time. She’d always come fifteen minutes early. But on this night her daughter, who played piano for the group, fell asleep. Mrs. Paul hurriedly awakened Marilyn and they rushed to finish getting ready—but drove up to the church a few minutes late. This was the first time either had ever been tardy for choir practice.

Eighteen people made up the West Side Baptist Church choir. Tonight every one of them arrived late, something that had never happened before.

No one was there at 7:30 when the basement furnace, situated directly below the choir loft, ignited a gas leak. The loft blew up; the church was demolished. Then the choir members arrived on the scene—too late.*

Reflect

Read Psalm 91 from your Bible.

Respond

God is the Great Protector and no matter what you face, you’ll never come again anything that is bigger or stronger than He. God is your refuge and He is your strength. Put your trust in Him today and take shelter under the shadow of His wings.

What are your thoughts?

What prayer requests do you have for yourself and others today?

*Steven R. Mosley, God a Biography, (Phoenix: Questar Publishers, Inc., 1988), p. 211-2.

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Think about it…

October 3, 2017Stories to Inspire Evangelismkolbyking

“We are unable to stop speaking…”

“When they [the religious leaders] observed the boldness of Peter and John and realized that they were uneducated and untrained men, they were amazed and knew that they had been with Jesus…So they called for them and ordered them not to preach or teach at all in the name of Jesus…”

“But Peter and John answered them, ‘Whether it is right in the sight of God for us to listen to you rather than God, you decide; for we are unable to stop speaking about what we have seen and heard.’”

–Acts 4:13,18-20

The disciples were not preaching and teaching about Jesus because someone told them to. This wasn’t part of a church program or an outreach strategy. Methods of sharing Jesus are great helps but sharing Jesus isn’t about methods. It’s about that fact that you have been with Jesus and you can’t help but to talk about the things that you have seen and heard. You cannot stop. You are unable to cease from proclaiming the good news. It’s like a burning in your bones.

Show me a believer who is in love with the Lord, walking right with Him and willing to share Him and I’ll show you a believer that is more than ready to bring others to Christ—even without methods. The religious leaders noticed that the disciples were untrained and uneducated men. But they had something that methods can’t teach: a passion for Christ. Sharing Jesus should be an overflow of your own relationship with Him. Like a sponge that is full of water, when you are full of Christ, you can’t help but to drip Him everywhere you go—in action and in word.

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Like Christ

October 3, 2017Stories to Inspire Evangelismkolbyking

Albert Schweitzer was acclaimed in his day as one of the greatest men on earth. He was a missionary in the heart of Africa. He won more honors than any living man at that time. He won the Nobel prize in 1952. On one occasion, when he came to Chicago, a group of prominent citizens came to welcome him. They gathered around him, gave him the key to the city, and told him that they were greatly honored by his visit. The reporters took notes and the photographers were getting many pictures. Suddenly the great man excused himself. He rushed over to a little woman who was struggling with a heavy suitcase and several packages. He picked these things up and told the woman to follow him. He literally ran interference for her through the crowded station, put her on the train, and wished her a pleasant journey. When he returned to the committee, he said, “I am sorry to keep you gentlemen waiting, I was just having my daily fun.” And one of the reporters said, “That is the first time I ever saw a big sermon walking.”*

Reflect

He [Jesus] must increase, but I must decrease (John 3:30).

Respond

When people look at you what do they see: More of you or more of Christ?

Remember

Think about it: On a scale of 1 to 10, how much are you like Christ?

*W. Herschel Ford, Sermons You Can Preach on John, (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 1958), p. 273-4.

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Where They Love a Fellow

October 3, 2017Stories to Inspire Evangelismkolbyking

In the late 1800s D. L. Moody began a Sunday school on Illinois Street in Chicago. One child who attended would walk each week from halfway across the city, which was a large city even in those days. He would pass church after church until he reached the Illinois Street Sunday School.

One day a superintendent of one of the Sunday Schools he passed asked him, “Why do you go all the way out there? Why don’t you come here? It is right next door to you.”

Looking up at the superintendent, the lad said, “I go where they love a fellow.”*

Reflect

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another” (John 13:34-35).

Respond

God created us for fellowship and at the heart of true fellowship is the expression of God’s type of love. How can you express God’s type of love to the people you visit each week? To the children? To their parents? To others with whom you come in contact on a daily basis?

Remember

“Real fellowship happens when people get honest about who they are and what is happening in their lives.”**

*Hyman J. Appelman, “Paralyzed People,” [July 1946], Hudson, Curtis, ed. Great Preaching on Soul Winning. (Murfreesboro, TN: Sword of the Lord Publishers, 1989), p. 121.

**Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life, (Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishers, 2002), p. 140.

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Follow Jesus

"Jesus must become greater…" John 3:30

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Turkey Joke #1

What key won’t open any door?

Sharing Jokes with a Purpose is a great way to share the Gospel with your friends.

Teaching in a Visual Way

Seeing Above the Fog

Kids Leading Kids to Christ

Learn HERE the same method of sharing Christ that the kids used in the stories above. It’s a great way to teach your kids to lead others to the Lord too…and it’s free!

How God Touched a Life

A Girl Named Victoria

The Story of Squanto

My Daddy Came

Thanksgiving in a Blender

Second Chances

Relying on God

God’s Protection

Think about it…

Like Christ

Where They Love a Fellow