God is Still Working!

        Do you ever get critical about your church?  You might say, "Well, they don't do things the way we used to do them."  Plus, one of the things of course by which we evaluate our churches is by the number of souls saved each week, each month or even each year.  You can put a lot of "counters" on your computer.  I had one that told me many different statistics each minute.  I could tell how many chickens were killed, how many bicycles were made, how many people died, how many people were born and how many people became believers in the Lord Jesus Christ.  Wow!  That's a lot of information.  Acts 2:41 says, "Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls."   
       When the church began, there was only one location and it was in downtown Jerusalem.  The disciples were gathered together and Pentecost occurred.  Peter, the one who often found himself in trouble, stand us and preaches a short message which results in 3,000 souls being saved.  We read that and then notice in the next chapter that 5,000 more were saved and then they stopped counting and said it was just so many that they couldn't count them anymore.  We look at that and say, "Wow.  What's wrong today?  Why aren't we seeing souls saved like that today.  Actually, there are more people being saved today than there was on the day of Pentecost.  We only see what's happening in our own neck of the woods.  What we don't see is what's going on in Roanoke, Lawrenceville, Chicago, Philadelphia, Miami, Lima, Moscow, Berlin and literally thousands of cities around the world.  We don't see the preachers and missionaries who are giving out God's message faithfully around the world.  There is not a moment when the gospel is not being proclaimed.  On one such computer clock, there is one new Christian every second.  That's 60 new believers every minute, so ten minutes equals 600 new believers.  There are 1440 minutes in a day and the number of new believers every day is 86,400.  Now, How great is your God?  Praise God today for the preachers, missionaries, church workers, believers who are all sharing the wonderful Gospel, the Good news of the Lord Jesus Christ.