I apologize for being out of the Blogesphere for several weeks. It has been a heavy time of counseling (some of the folks with problems and broken hearts live over 100 miles away, and I had to travel to them), and dealing with grieving friends and families of those for whom I did funerals.
Death is the final event of life on earth, but it is the event from which people begin to evaluate a person’s legacy.
The legacy to which I am referring is their influence on those left behind and the results of their walk with Jesus, not their physical wealth or possessions.
One funeral was for my boss of 19 years. A former athlete, who was in the training camp for a National League team, when God called him to ministry.
Eventually he started a men’s ministry that Involved thousands of men in as volunteers in mission work in the U.S. and abroad. He sponsored groups which built church buildings, built Baptist retreat and conference centers, youth camps, church renewal conferences, and was one of the four men who gave birth to the Baptist disaster relief ministry. He sponsored the building of the first Mobile disaster feeding unit. This led to the development of chainsaw, mud out, childcare, laundry, shower, chaplain, rebuilding, ash out and other units! There are now over 1500 units and over 95,000 trained volunteers!
On his deathbed he whispered, “Skip all that obituary stuff, just print, “HALLELUJAH”!
Like a rock thrown in a pond, the ripples keep going, all the way to the shore and his legacy goes on…people enlisting and training others as he did… and his ministry continues to build his legacy and aid others in building theirs!
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