I can never lead a person to Jesus Christ by my clever rhetoric or even by my compassion

unless God, the Holy Spirit, opens that man's heart, he will never respond to my message.

But at a human level, what a beautiful thing it is, when I get to see somebody respond and their life has changed.

Here's a passage written for me and written for everyone, not just the ordained,

but for those who were involved at all in Christian work of evangelists.

Listen to what he says.

How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of them

who bring good tidings and who publish peace. Do you see the imagery that Paul is appealing

to back to the Old Testament where Isaiah is making this beautiful statement in the name

of God. And he has in mind, obviously, the messenger of the A1 Gaelian of the good news.

The king's troops go out to battle, and the battle rages, and there's no on-the-spot TV, too,

to give us an up-to-date report on what's going on

in the battlefield.

The whole history of the nation may be at stake in one pivotal battle.

But how are we going to know who won or who lost?

You've heard of the Battle of Thermopylae and Salamis and of Marathon.

The Marathon race is named because of the story of the one who was commissioned to bring back the Battle of Thermopy and Salamis and of Marathon. The Marathon race is named because of the

story of the one who was commissioned to bring back the news of victory or defeat at the Battle

of Marathon. And so a marathon runner is one who runs a long distance because in antiquity

news was carried not by radio or by television or by Pony Express, but by human

runner. And that person ran as fast as he could with as much as endurance as he could

possibly have and muster to bring to the news of the king, whether it was defeat or victory.

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