What is the Heating Apparatus of Your Church?
Five young college students before their ordination spent a Sunday in London and were anxious to hear some will-known preacher rather than their own. They found their way on a very warm Sunday to Spurgeon's Tabernacle. While waiting for the doors to open, a stranger came up to them and said, "Gentlemen, would you like to see the heating apparatus of the church? Well, they were not particularly anxious to do so on a broiling hot day in July, but they consented.
They were taken down some steps and the door was thrown open and their whispered, "There sirs, is our heating apparatus." They saw 700 people bowed in earnest prayer seeking God's blessing on the service which was about held in the Tabernacle. Their unknown guide was Spurgeon himself.
When the Church is on fire there is nothing that can stop it. We are to be the heating apparatus for each service that is conducted. Then the fire is to be carried to the world.
[This story was published in the Global Church Network newsletter by James O. Davis on Thursday, July 22, 2021. Davis is a powerful preacher and writer.]
Five young college students before their ordination spent a Sunday in London and were anxious to hear some will-known preacher rather than their own. They found their way on a very warm Sunday to Spurgeon's Tabernacle. While waiting for the doors to open, a stranger came up to them and said, "Gentlemen, would you like to see the heating apparatus of the church? Well, they were not particularly anxious to do so on a broiling hot day in July, but they consented.
They were taken down some steps and the door was thrown open and their whispered, "There sirs, is our heating apparatus." They saw 700 people bowed in earnest prayer seeking God's blessing on the service which was about held in the Tabernacle. Their unknown guide was Spurgeon himself.
When the Church is on fire there is nothing that can stop it. We are to be the heating apparatus for each service that is conducted. Then the fire is to be carried to the world.
[This story was published in the Global Church Network newsletter by James O. Davis on Thursday, July 22, 2021. Davis is a powerful preacher and writer.]