Wilberforce And The Band Of Abolitionists Knew

Removing Religious Symbols From Public Places Is Not Neutrality. On The Contrary, It Sends A Highly Negative Message - That Religion Is Something Shameful, Embarrassing, Or At Best Strictly Private.

God Uses Prisons To Train People For Future Roles Of Leadership Or Martyrdom.

The Life Function Of [the Local Church] Is To Love The God Who Created It - To Care For Others Out Of Obedience To Christ, To Heal Those Who Hurt, To Take Away Fear, To Restore Community, To Belong To One Another, To Proclaim The Good News While Living It Out. The Church Is The Invisible Made Visible.

But All At Once I Realized That It Was Not My Success God Had Used To Enable Me To Help Those In This Prison, Or In Hundreds Of Others Just Like It. My Life Of Success Was Not What Made This Morning So Glorious -- All My Achievements Meant Nothing In God's Economy. "no, The Real Legacy Of My Life Was My Biggest Failure -- That I Was An Ex-convict. My Greatest Humiliation -- Being Sent To Prison -- Was The Beginning Of God's Greatest Use Of My Life; He Chose The One Thing In Which I Could Not Glory For His Glory.

You Are Called Not To Be Successful Or To Meet Any Of The Other Counterfeit Standards Of This World, But To Be Faithful And To Be Expended In The Cause Of Serving The Risen And Returning Christ.