Audience of One

From the latest daily emailed inspiration sent by my friend and colleague, Pastor Glen VanderKloot:

                 OnLine with Faith

July 8, 2009                          Issue 507c

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2313 Whittier Avenue, Springfield, IL, 62704, Glen VanderKloot, Pastor.

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Thought for the Day

"I think of Frederick L. Anderson, the New Testament professor
at Newton Theological Institution at the turn of the century,
who came in his youth to be pastor of Second Baptist Church
(now Baptist Temple) in Rochester, New York.

"After his first sermon, an elderly woman, spokesperson
for the pew super-ego, asked him: 'How can you, young
as you are, expect to please 700 people?'

"Putting aside his altar ego, Anderson replied unhesitatingly:
'I did not come to please 700 people. I came to please one.'"
[Leonard Sweet]

Scripture
1 Thessalonians 4:1:

Brothers and sisters, we taught you how to live in a way
that will please God, and you are living that way.
Now we ask and encourage you in the Lord Jesus to
live that way even more.

Prayer
Lord, help me to always remember I only have an audience
of one, you, whom I seek to please.  Amen

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