A soldier was trying to keep warm in his army tent on a frigid winter night. He had piled his clothes and blankets on top of him but his feet stuck out beyond the covers. “Why don’t you pull in your feet?” the sergeant asked. “Oh, no,” the chattering rookie replied, “if I’d pull them cold things in here, I would freeze to death!” The church must be warm at heart if we are to thaw out our fringe members.
Category: Quote of the Day
Quote of the Day
Then there is the story of the spring whose waters had certain medicinal properties so that those who drank from it were helped in various infirmities. In the course of time, homes sprang up around the spring – then came a hotel, stores, and eventually a town that grew into a city. But there came a day when visitors would ask, “Where is the spring from which this grew?” and the residents would say, with embarrassment, “We are sorry, but somehow in the midst of all our progress and improvement, we lost the spring.” Institutional Christianity’s biggest problem today is to find its lost spring.