SYSTEM THREAT

I spent time today talking with two area preachers (separately) about the loads they carry. I highly esteem each. They are important and special friends. Each carries proper concern about and for the church. I know I am not far off the mark when I say so many of you care deeply for the welfare, direction, and load of the church where you serve. We are seriously in this for the long haul.

Therefore, please note we are among the most privileged on earth. Paulson and Bernake may sit with the President to wrestle with economic issues, but we sit with one another to discuss the greatest System on earth...God's. Ours is a sobering and enormous challenge. It seems the world teeters at times on the brink of irrecoverable imbalance only to find the church operating with an even more frayed thread. While we love what we get to do, the whole thing could explode into awful disarray on one misguided dialog because Satan is so powerfully antagonistic to the great System.

We sit in on the great conferences to discuss both relief and potential for mankind. We (not just a "they" thing) must take our talk seriously that our plans to reach a dark world finds the activation button has been hit. We must decide whether we want to rescue those imprisoned or just have a friendly coffee while Rome burns. We are invited to sit at the very same table where gray beards like Abraham, Moses, Job, James, and John once perched to be just as decisive (just as sober) about guiding God's children upon the shores of the human heart.

God bless you. God bless the tar out of you for the courageous determination you display as you try your very best to finish the race giving Him your all....your entire you. Don't worry about career and finances and health. Don't . If you are going to worry, may it be about the hopes of others which oddly are based on whether you dare to risk for them or dumb down to a few brotherhood moods which, in general, may not care half a hoot about the lost ones in the market place.

I love my two friends. I dearly love you. You are a key player in the greatest work on earth. Take a good look at the people God places in front of you.....and give 'em heaven!