Why We Doing This?

So I’ve blinked and suddenly it is now August…school will be starting soon and the days have begun to grow shorter. Now I am just waiting for the temps to cool…and yes, I will be the one complaining about the cold weather in January! Still, I have been seeking relief from the heat inside and reading. Specifically reading again about an amazing man, Smith Wigglesworth. Reading about Smith, I came across this quote in Wigglesworth: A Man Who Walked With God by George Stormont. “Before visiting door to door was popular in England, Wigglesworth did it. He did not wait for his church to develop a visitation program. He was the program! With a burning heart and unflagging zeal, he sought out people in their homes. He had what has been called ‘20/20 spiritual vision’—Acts 20.20.” Now, as many of us here at Beulah seek direction concerning outreach into our community, it occurred to me that what we really need is not a new or better program, what we need are people who will become the program…people with a desire to see others brought to Christ. We might try many things, programs that are successful elsewhere, but if we do not have in our hearts the desire to see folks come to profess Jesus Christ as their Savior and Lord…if we are doing it because the pastor or someone else wants it...it will never be successful and we will never be a successful church.