Some years ago, I was working as a Pastoral Assistant at a local church in Durban North when the Janitor came rushing into my office.

“My wife is having a baby,” he said excitedly.

“That’s nice,” I responded, thinking he wanted a lift to the local hospital.

“You don’t understand,” he shouted. “She is having a baby right now in the Church kitchen.”

We rushed through the sanctuary to the kitchen and, sure enough, there she was on all fours about to give birh. The Zulu people in South Africa are a hardy folk and I knew the baby was on its way.

I ran to the little chapel and interrupted about forty folks enjoying an early morning prayer meeting.

“Come, help deliver the baby!”

I could just see the whites of forty pairs of eyes, but no-one moved.

“You’re all parents and grandparents. You’ve been there. You know what to do…” I said as panic began to set in.

“We will help!”

I turned around to see two middle-aged bachelors. They had never been married and I doubt they had ever held a baby.

“We know what to do,” they said. “We saw it on TV.”

One rushed to find some newspaper and water (he’d seen that on TV) and the other stood over the hapless lady shouting “Push.”

I was on the ‘phone to the hospital and shouting “DON’T PUSH!!!!”
at the same time.

Fortunately for all of us, the ambulance arrived on time, but it was touch and go. The contractions were really coming thick and fast – and so was the baby.

It made me realise the truth of what Jesus said. The more “Signs of the Times” we see happening in our world .. the more the world’s contractions increase .. the closer is the Return of the One Who was once The Babe of Bethlehem.

I’m looking forward to His Return with great anticipation. How about you?

Val

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The Christian and the Bible

“Listen to the statutes… teach them to your children and your grandchildren.” – Deuteronomy 4:1, 9

Jesus said the love of many would grow cold in the End Times. Despite our profession of faith, the facts speak loudly about the general level of spirituality among believers. The only true source of spiritual sustenance is the Inspired Word of God and neglect is causing many Christians to suffer from Spirtual Malnutrition.

Recently comedian Jay Leno asked his television audience to name one of the Ten Commandments. One person ventured: “God helps those who help themselves.” Leno asked if anyone could name the four Gospels. No one could; but responding to another question, almost everyone in the audience could name the four Beatles.

As biblical instruction wanes, large numbers of young people are biblically illiterate. Our society is developing a profound ignorance of Jesus. Many don’t understand the term “Good Friday” or the meaning of our basic Christian vocabulary–grace, sin, redemption, and salvation.

The number of people who read the Bible “occasionally” has declined from 79 percent in the 1980s to 59 percent. Only 16 percent of Christians say they read the Bible daily. (Clayton Hardiman, Bible Literacy Slipping, Experts Say, at Religious News Service, posted at home.snu.edu/~HCULBERT/literacy.htm)

Read your Bible every day. Teach it to your children. Don’t depend on others to do it. Offer to lead Bible classes at your church, and volunteer to work in the children’s ministry. Reversing the tide of biblical illiteracy is going to take all of us doing our part.

“Many Christians expect the world to respect the book they neglect.” -E.C. McKenzie

Source: David Jeremiah

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