Preaching

I preached at FOS last night for the first time and it was, uhh...eye opening. God really humbled me, sadly it was in front of 150 kids. Haha, but I closed the night with a quote and I deemed it appropriate to put that quote up here, on my blog, that no one reads and no one comments on. :)

The quote is by a man named William Booth, as I said last night. He was a poor guy who became a street preacher, and eventually was a reformist and he started this organization that offered Salvation and Christian ethics to the poor, prostitutes, sick, drug addicts, alcoholics, and whoever else wasn't allowed in any other churches. This organization eventually became what we know today as The Salvation Army. He said this in response to a man who claimed to, "not be called into missions." So, check it out, enjoy, wrestle with it...let is get to you a little.

"'Not called!' did you say? 'Not heard the call,' I think you should say.
Put your ear down to the Bible, and hear Him bid you go and pull sinners out of the fire of sin. Put your ear down to the burdened, agonized heart of humanity, and listen to its pitiful wail for help. Go stand by the gates of hell, and hear the damned entreat you to go to their father's house and bid their brothers and sisters and servants and masters not to come there. Then look Christ in the face -- whose mercy you have professed to obey -- and tell Him whether you will join heart and soul and body and circumstances in the march to publish His mercy to the world. -- "