Tuesday, January 23, 2001
Tuesday, January 23, 2001
Therefore encourage one another and build up each other, as indeed you are doing.
After the first service a man in the congregation wanted to speak to his pastor. The pastor
describes the man as "kind of macho, a former football player." The man told his pastor, "I love
you and I love this church, but I'm not going to participate in this Forty Days of Love stuff. It's
OK for some folks," he said, "but it's a little too syrupy for me."
A week went by. The next Sunday this man waited after church to see his pastor again. "I
want to apologize for what I said last Sunday," he told him, "about the Forty Days of Love. I
realized on Wednesday that I was wrong."
"Wednesday?" his pastor repeated. "What happened on Wednesday?"
"I got one of those letters!" the man said. It was from a person the man never expected to hear
from. It touched him so deeply he now carries it around in his pocket all the time.
You never know when your word of encouragement will touch a life forever.
(1Thessalonians 5:11
NRSV)
Have you ever been confronted with a message that changed your perspective? One church
chose as its Lenten theme, "Forty Days of Love." Each week members of the congregation were
encouraged to show their love and appreciation in different ways. The first week they were
encouraged to send notes to people who had made positive contributions to their lives.
God of hope, may my words encourage others in your love. Amen.
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