Thursday, August 5, 2010

Serve

"Dear Willem, I thought, as I stepped back inside and closed the door, he was about as good a salesman of the church as Father was of watches. If he'd converted a single Jew in twenty years I hadn't heard about it. Willem didn't try to change people, just to serve them." -Corrie Ten Boom, The Hiding Place

Isn't this the way all Christians should be? Of course, we should have a deep burden for the state of others' souls, and we should always be ready with a word of encouragement or an answer to a question. Nonetheless, we must keep ourselves from being pushy and forcing our religion on anyone. Instead, let us serve both the Christian brethren and our unsaved friends. After all, actions do speak louder than words!

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