A Walking Sermon...
“Be doers of the word,
and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.” – James 1:2.
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Once
many reporters gathered at a Chicago railway station waiting to meet the Nobel
Peace Prize winner. He was a big man, six-feet-four tall with bushy hair and a
large mustache. Reporters
were excited to see him and expressed what an honor it was meet him.
Cameras were flashing,
compliments were being expressed—but seeing beyond the adulation the Noble
Peace Prize winner noticed an elderly Afro-American woman struggling to carry
her two large suitcases.
"Excuse me,"
he said as he went to the aid of this woman. Picking up her cases, he escorted
her to a bus and then apologized to the reporters for keeping them waiting.
The man was Dr. Albert
Schweitzer, the famous missionary-doctor who had invested his life helping poor
and sick people in Africa.
A member of the
reception committee remarked to one of the reporters, "That's the first
time I ever saw a sermon walking."
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The measure of any man
or woman is not their name, their fame, nor what they say—but what they do.
Jesus told us in
Matthew 7:20, 'God will recognize us by our fruit.'
St. Francis of Assisi
said, “Preach the Gospel at all times, if necessary use words.”
Blessed Day!
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