love” to mean “God hurts in His heart for us.” “Doubt” stands for “thinking two things." There’s a good lesson for us there. We commend the ministry of the Wycliffe Bible Translators for your ear nest prayers on behalf of those who are faithfully translating the Gospel story into the some 2000 tongues which as yet do not have the written word in their own language. The Apostle Paul asked the penetrating question, “How then shall they call on him in whom th-y have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!” (Rom. 10:14-15). CHANGING MEMBERSHIPS It seems like a number of our min ister friends find a great deal of enjoy ment and relaxation in golf. Out of the fairways they can relax and unwind from the pressures and tensions so often plaguing these in places of im portant responsibility a n d spiritual leadership. A young couple had just signified their interest in joining a cer tain church. The preacher hadn’t met the husband. He naturally asked from what church he’d be coming. The wife quickly responded, “Well, pastor, he’s transferring from the Municipal Golf Course.” That’s quite a recommenda tion, isn’t it? To transfer one’s alle giance from the golf course to the church of Jesus Christ means more thctn changing membership and maybe pay ing a little less dues. The only way to become a part of the one true church, made up of all born-again believers, is through conversion. By this we mean that a man must see himself as a sin ner, confessing his need of Christ as Saviour, and receiving Him as his Lord. Merely joining a church isn’t enough. Socially it may be accepted, but it is not what makes the difference with the Lord. One must be bom again to be a Patience is sometimes bitter, but its fruit is always sweet.
in print, it would amount to a fair sized book, to say nothing of the library you would accumulate in just a few years. The question is whether we’d want everyone to read what we had written. No doubt there have been need less things, as well as unworthy com ments, we’d just as soon we hadn’t made. Keep in mind that all of our words, as well as all of our very thoughts themselves, are readily seen and heard by the Lord. The books we write each day can never be taken down from the shelves and altered. What a tremendous responsibility we have to follow the admonition of Scripture in that our speech shall always be with grace and appropriate, or “seasoned with salt.” You’re writing each day a letter to men So take care that the writing is true. It’s the only Gospel that some folk will read: That Gospel according to you. BIBLE TRANSLATION We have much for which to praise the Lord, not the least of which are the spiritual victories He has given through our graduates. They send us back some thrilling reports. Recently a letter from one of the Wycliffe Bible Translators told how that extreme caution has to be exercised due to the multi-tonal words employed in their work. Often only the inflection of the voice can in dicate which word is meant. For in stance “sinner” is spelled the same as the word for “a fat person.” The only difference is in the voice change. The missionary reports she was- telling' the people one day, “God loves the sinner.” She noted bewilderment crossing the faces of the natives. The impression they got was that God loves a fat person. Since none of them were fat due to their meager diet, they concluded that they weren’t the objects of God’s love. Ex treme care in Bible teaching has to be maintained. There is a South American tribe which translates the words “God’s 28 If you carry an appetite to God’s house, you will always be fed with the bread of life.
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