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-chapter by chapter verse by verse study through the entire Bible.

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

pray God's will as we pick up in John chapter 15 verse 16.

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

I believe that God ordained Moody, and I believe that God ordained Finney.

And I believe that God had Moody reach people that Finney could not reach, and Finney reached

people that Moody could not reach. And certainly, Dwight Moody was one of the greatest evangelists

that God has brought along in the American history.

But God uses different methods to reach different people

and different instruments to reach different people.

But my desire is that I not only bring forth fruit,

but that the fruit remains, lasting fruit.

And so I'm not so much interested in the quantity of the fruit as I am the quality of the fruit

that has developed through my ministry.

That's why we spend so much time in the study of the Word of God, that we might be clean through the Word, which he has spoken to us, that we might bring forth more fruit and that we

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