to be a well-run, heavily promoted organization. The fact remains that only the Scripture can establish the proper pattern. Too often we are desperately influenced by our own background. Our purpose as missionaries should not be simply what we have grown up with in our own native land. The church is not an intellectual circle. It is not a type of lecturing association where people sit pas sively as religious professional teachers proclaim their respective philosophies. Christianity, after all, is not just another kind of religion. It is far more than a mere specta tor sport. Religion is man's vain attempt by his own works to reach Cod. Christianity is Cod reaching down to man through His Son to bring eternal salvation. To be effective witnesses for the Lord requires a total commitment to the Saviour. It cannot be simply a weekly ritual performance. Too often in our individual lives, as well as our churches, we have no sense of purpose, permanence or goals in life. We just go through the mo tions of singing hymns, passing the plate, listening to a sermonette and then filing out only to return a week later to repeat the practice. The body of Christ truly has a tremendous purpose. It has to be a glorious Church "without spot or wrinkle or any such thing." We must not stop short with an inter mediate goal. We are to live sacri- ficially so that in every area of our daily existence Christ may be seen reflected in us. So often we lose the Scriptural idea that together we are supposed to grow and be conformed to the image of God's Looking across campus toward the Music Building (r).
Son. Together we are to be a col ony of heaven on earth. That was the thing for which Paul labored. The original meant to "wear your self out for this purpose." When I was a biology student we did an experiment with house flies. We would melt a blob of wax and put it on the back of a fly. Then a little wire was stuck in the wax to hold the fly in place. It could be lifted up and the wings would automatically go. It tried its best to get away, all to no avail. Finally, in sheer exhaustion those wings would drop off. That is what the word implies. Paul said he wanted to labor to the very point of exhaustion. Let me ask you, are you really concerned to see your
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