I was reading the “The Evangelistic Perspective” magazine this morning. There was an article written by Renda Brumbeloe, titled The Ripple effect. The article was pretty simplistic, but caused me to think about my ripple effect. Here is a interesting ripple effect:
- In 1855, a Sunday school teacher, Mr. Kimball, led a Boston shoe clerk to give his life to Christ. The clerk, Dwight L. Moody, became a Evangelist.
- In England in 1879 Dwight L. Moody awakened evangelistic zeal in the heart of Fredrick B. Meyer, pastor of a small church.
- F.B. Meyer, preaching to an American college campus, brought to Christ a student named J. Wilbur Chapman.
- J. Wilbur Chapman, engaged in YMCA work, employed a former baseball player, Billy Sunday, to do evangelistic work.
- Billy Sunday held a revival in Charlotte, North Carolina. A group of local men were so enthusiastic afterward that they planned another evangelistic campaign, bring Mordeci Hamm to preach.
- During Mordecai Hamm’s revival, a young man named Billy Graham heard the gospel and yielded his life to Christ.
This caused me to think of what ripple effect do I have in our community, or my sphere of influence. I or we may never know what my small drop of water in the huge pond of this world will make in the lives that I or we touch. Everything we do that is the will of God will affect lives for eternity.
So what are you doing to cause the ripple effect?
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