We can turn people on to the church or turn them out of the church by the way we speak.
Some years ago, when Catherine Booth died, her body was carried to a great auditorium in London. For hours and hours, people by the hundreds streamed by her casket in an outstanding display of love, affection, and gratitude. One man in that long line expressed what all were feeling that day: "She spoke to me as no one ever had before. She cared for me, and I could tell it by the way she talked to me. I was an outcast, lonely and lost. I will never forget her voice. There was something so wonderful and so meaningful about the way she spoke to you. You could feel the spirit and love of Christ in her words."
How is it with you? Are people drawn to Christ and to the Christian faith by the way you speak?
-- James W. Moore in When You're a Christian, the Whole World is from Missouri
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