October 5, 2023 - Good Morning! It's Thursday, October 5.
Here’s one of my favorite quotes about New York City. ”If you stand on the corner in Times Square long enough, every person in the world will walk by”. It’s a thought both clever and illuminating. And it comes to mind as we sit in our church ice cream booth at Poultry Fest, our town’s fall festival. There's always a huge crowd that attends this event and it seems like, over the weekend, that every person in Shelby County walks by.
I'm also reminded of another time, another place, another county. Fifteen years ago, I was Minister of Worship at First Baptist Church Rosenberg, Texas, in Fort Bend County, just west of Houston. While there, our staff did a study and discovered that within a fifteen mile radius of our church there were 75 different people groups. There was a huge Asian community, a large Indian community, and thousands of Muslims. First Baptist Rosenberg was a church that had always gone above and beyond in supporting world missions. But, in that moment, we realized that God . . . had brought the world to us.
Well, you say, that was the Houston area, known for being an international place. But even here in East Texas we have brothers and sisters from Asia and Africa and South and Central America. The planet Earth is still a big place, but every day it seems to get a little smaller. Every day we’re reminded that missions start just outside our front door. Every day . . . God brings the world to us.
Meet you back here tomorrow,
Bro. David
dmathis@fbccenter.org
