Today we said goodbye to a patriarch of Beulah UMC. Gail Bennett was a fundamental person in the life and work of Beulah UMC for many, many years. As I write this, I fully realize he was not the person responsible for the church, nor for our faith here at Beulah…he simply did what he understood as the call of Christ on his life for the Kingdom. Just by doing that, he made a tremendous impact on the Church, on the community of Sumner, and on the lives of countless people in the surrounding area. So I am wondering, who will fill that void...who will be the next Gail Bennett at Beulah, or in your church? Who is that person who desires nothing more than to do the will of God…so much so, that many lives will be changed for the Kingdom? We need them…Beulah needs that person and the world needs those persons, desperately. And wouldn’t it be something like a miracle…a burning bush incident...if 6, or 10, or 20, or 50 people felt convicted to be that person, at the same time, in the same church! The Church might actually shake the foundations of this world instead of our world shaking the foundations of the Church. What about you? There are people who need you to focus solely on the will of God in your life…for their sake.
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