This is a rough guess. I googled Ms. Henrietta Mears vision statement for Gospel light. Something like 6,770,000 sites with the words, "to know Christ and to make him known." What would she say about the state of the church as it is today? (I’m talking about evangelical christian churches across the world) Who would she go to first? I’ve often wondered what Ms. Henrietta Mears would say to the church if she were granted 24 hours here on earth. When she began her Gospel Light ministry, her vision for ministry was "to know Christ and to make him known. How many of our churches across the world have made that their vision for the way they do ministry? I worked for a church that had her vision as their vision statement. I know her heart would break over the way things are going within the church. The small amount of information I know about her life is nothing compared to those who served with her and who came to Christ through her ministry. Here is what I think she would say; "Get back to work. There are lives to be saved. Stop belly aching over the sins of the church and get back to the business of loving and making Christ’s love known throughout the world." If it were not for the many who loved me and nurtured me in my own faith, people who were also heirs of Ms. Mears ministry, I know I would not be where I am at today in my own life. I can’t help but think of Psalm 71:18;  "Even when I am old and gray, do not forsake me, O God, till I declare your power to the next generation, your might to all who are to come." Ms. Mears had to have had the posted on her office wall sometime in her ministry.

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