Wanted
Needed :
Alpha Males
G . F . Watkins
In our home city of Houston , Texas , we have the largest attended church in the USA in Lakewood , and Second Baptist is not far behind with 40,000 attendees on a Sunday morning . Yet we do not demonstrate the influence that it takes to vote out a homosexual mayor .
To me the strength of our church should be demonstrated in our ability to influence our local community , not simply meet on Sunday morning to listen to a Bible story . Women will congregate in our churches ; men will follow to get their checkmark , make their mothers and wives happy , and keep the peace at home . But will they act on the truths preached each Sunday ?
I heard an interesting message recently that captures this thought and I ’ d like to share it with you here . A man asked his teenage daughter to go to her room and clean it . She immediately went to the room with a pad and pen . She returned 30 minutes later having a full pad of notes taken . She informed her father that she had gone into her room and written down everything he had asked her to
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