AMAZING... think about it...


If you win a thousand people to the Lord every day for 35 years, you will have won 12,000,000 people.

 
If you win one person to the Lord every year and disciple them to win one person to the Lord every year, in 35 years you will have won 9,000,000,000 people, or the entire population of the world.

Starting from September, Grace Christian Fellowship, will have a school. Luke will start when the school opens in Septemer, but Katie will finish Japanese elementary school next March. So, we decided to let her wait a year so she could "graduate" with her friends.

Two times in two days I came across the following quote...

"Love without truth is hypocrisy. Truth without love is brutality."

And I think about this verse:

"Open rebuke is better than love carefully concealed.  Faithful are the wounds of a friend, But the kisses of an enemy are deceitful." Proverbs 27:5-6

Matthew Henry's commentary says...

"It is good for us to be reproved, and told of our faults, by our friends. If true love in the heart has but zeal and courage enough to show itself in dealing plainly with our friends, and reproving them for what they say and do amiss, this is really better, not only than secret hatred (as Lev. 19:17), but than secret love, that love to our neighbours which does not show itself in this good fruit, which compliments them in their sins, to the prejudice of their souls. Faithful are the reproofs of a friend, though for the present they are painful as wounds. It is a sign that our friends are faithful indeed if, in love to our souls, they will not suffer sin upon us, nor let us alone in it. "

Loving honesty leads to healthy relationships. I want my friends to tell me the truth... what I need to hear, not just what they think I want to hear. Honesty involves risk. But true friends are willing to take that risk.