There was a man...

"There was a man sent from God and his name was __________"

Are any of us comfortable filling in our own name into this line from John 6:1?

• Have you helped remove downed trees from the roofs of homes after a hurricane?
• Have you taken the time to be a father figure to a boy with no father?
• Haveyou ever sponsored a child so that they can attend a youth event or a Christian Camp?
• Have you ever just sat together with others from your church and had a great conversation about where we find ourselves in God's world and the pressures of today's culture?

God places before us many opportunities to glorify His name and the list above is a very short list of those things. What can you add to the list?

One only has to read the newspaper and watch the news to see that the American family and our churches along with them are in a terrible state of decline. The men of today are the key to bringing our families and our churches back to what God had planned. In order to bring men back into the church and fathers back into their families we need to lead them to see God's best for their life.

Are you willing to partner with the Holy Spirit and let Him guide us to fulfill God's plan? That's what it will take - Each of us partnering with the Holy Spirit, letting Him lead us, and reaching out to one person, one family, at a time.

This was based on part of a letter from Mike Gerega, President of American Baptist Men of New York State...