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the people we came to minister to <strong>do</strong>n’t seem<br />

to really like us.<br />

The world would say give the children back,<br />

get a divorce, or leave the field and go back to<br />

where people like you. Good questions to ask<br />

ourselves are: “What will happen to our mate if<br />

we <strong>do</strong>n’t love and care for them, our children if<br />

we <strong>do</strong>n’t nurture and train them, and what will<br />

happen to the needy pastors or street children<br />

or the church in the country in which we have<br />

been called to serve if we pack up and leave?”<br />

Let me share three quotes which might<br />

encourage all of us in our walk with God:<br />

1. Matthew Henry, one of my favorite British<br />

pastors, who died in 1714, made an excellent<br />

comment regarding Luke 6:40: “Christ’s<br />

followers cannot expect better treatment in<br />

the world than their Master had. Let them<br />

not promise themselves more honor or<br />

pleasure in the world than Christ had. Let<br />

each live a life of labor and self-denial as his<br />

Master, and make himself a servant of all; let<br />

him stoop, and let him toil, and <strong>do</strong> all the<br />

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