Quote of the Week

Our quote this week comes from William Booth, the founder of the Salvation Army.  One of the things I admire about Mr. Booth is that, while caring deeply about helping to meet people's felt needs he didn't lose sight of the bigger picture.  That being the fact that those he was helping also needed an opportunity to hear the Gospel. 

"Not called!’ did you say? ’Not heard the call,’ I think you should say. Put your ear down to the Bible, and hear Him bid you go and pull sinners out of the fire of sin. Put your ear down to the burdened, agonized heart of humanity, and listen to its pitiful wail for help. Go stand by the gates of hell, and hear the damned entreat you to go to their father’s house and bid their brothers and sisters and servants and masters not to come there. Then look Christ in the face—whose mercy you have professed to obey—and tell Him whether you will join heart and soul and body and circumstances in the march to publish His mercy to the world.” – William Booth