On our way home from California, we stopped for a visit with Susan's sister and husband, Nancy and Bob, who pastor in Seattle. Bob has been a great inspiration to me as well as a mentor in pastoring. Yesterday he told me about an incident that happened a couple of days ago, at the beginning of the heat wave we are having now.
The basement of their church, which he just came to as senior pastor a couple of months ago, was very hot. While one of their guys was looking for something downstairs, he discovered a huge fan system. Apparently the fan had been installed when the church had been built, but for the last ten years, nobody has known that it existed. Whoever had been using it back a decade ago had left and had neglected to pass the torch. He did not tell the new caretakers all that they needed to know.
Of course for me everything is an illustration of life and that one was a set-up. When they turned the fan on a couple of days ago, the cool breezes blew and the basement was comfortable in minutes again. That simple illustration is a picture of what happens when one generatioon does not pass on truth to the next one. That's where we lose the faith of our fathers--somebody drops the baton! so the life lesson is to not only USE WHAT WE HAVE, BUT ALSO TO PASS THE KNOWLEDGE ON TO THE ONES WHO FOLLOW US!
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