Truth or Fiction?

I was reminded this past week of an old but interesting quote. The great 19th English actor William Charles Macready was addressed by an eminent preacher: “I wish you would explain to me something.” “Well, what is it? I don’t know that I can explain anything to a preacher.” “What is the reason for the difference between you and me? You are appearing before crowds night after night with fiction, and the crowds come wherever you go. I am preaching the essential and unchangeable truth, and I am not getting any crowd at all.” Macready’s answer was this: “This is quite simple. I can tell you the difference between us. I present my fiction as though it were truth; you present your truth as though it were fiction.” May God help those of us who present God’s truth – whether from behind a pulpit, over a lectern, across a breakfast table, or in informal settings – to do so as essential and unchanging truth in which we strongly and
sincerely believe?

Join me this week in praying for the following global concerns:
• Pray for Loida as she teaches in the Seminary at Yucatan, Mexico.
• Pray for Josiah, who is hospitalized in Thailand with pneumonia, while his family is on mission there.
• Pray for Patricia as she continues her Scripture translation work in Cameroon.
• Pray for the Johnsons as they return with multiple medical issues following several years of mission work in Uganda.
• Thank God for leading Joe to be engaged to his future wife while serving in the Republic of Georgia.
• Thank God for a great experience, leading conferences at the International Baptist Convention in Interlaken, Switzerland last week and for our safe return.