Little Country Church on the edge of town

Do do do do do do

People coming every day from miles around

For meetings and for Sunday school

And it's very plain to see

It's not the way it used to be.

Welcome to the Word for today, featuring the Bible teaching ministry of Pastor Chuck Smith,

founder of the Calvary Chapel Movement.

This radio program is a chapter-by- verse by verse study through the entire Bible.

And on today's edition of the Word for today, Pastor Chuck continues his message,

Active Faith, as we pick up in Acts chapter 19, verse 12.

And now with today's study, here's Pastor Chuck.

I think that it is important that faith be activated. Too many times we have what is classified as passive faith, but I think that's a misnomer.

I don't think you can have passive faith. I think that faith is active, or else it is not faith.

But we don't always act upon our faith.

And I think that it is valuable to have a point of contact where I release faith.

And I think that the bringing of a handkerchief from Paul

or the sweatband, as the case may be, and laying it upon the sick person was a place of

releasing faith. I know that, you know, as this handkerchief is laid on me, I'm going to be healed. God's going to touch me, you know.

And it gives us just a point of contact to release faith.

There used to be a man in Los Angeles. His name was Kelso Glover, who for years was on the radio,

a deeply spiritual man that I admired. And he had the practice of sending out handkerchiefs.

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