"Recently I read where 'The pioneers cleared the forests from Jamestown to the Mississippi with less tools than are stored in the typical modern garage.'

"This set me to thinking about the work of the church. The first century Christians and the Christians of the restoration movement were successful in their mission WITHOUT radios, telephones, postal service, expensive church building, copy machines, computers, cars, television, printing presses and airplanes. STOP and THINK about this for a few minutes.

"What then is OUR PROBLEM today? With all of these aids, why aren't we teaching the world? Could it be that souls are not important any longer? Could it be that we don't think the church is important today? Could it be that we have not made Christ the Lord of our lives? Or could it be that we have an attitude problem, or all of the above?

"With our chain saws, giant logging equipment, bulldozers, earth movers, etc., if someone were to ask us to clear off the land from the Atlantic to the Mississippi River, most of us would say, "It can't be done; I don't have the time; I can't do it all by myself, etc." It's all a matter of attitude. The old axiom, "you move a mountain one shovel full of dirt at a time, seems to apply here as well. The pioneers cleared the land one tree at a time, one shrub at a time.

"Let's teach the world, ONE PERSON AT A TIME."

Ralph G. Hickerson Betta Hills Bulletin, Oxford AL (October 7, 1991).