This is my 354th post.  I've told you almost everything I know.  Which obviously isn't much.  Through the years in the Bible classes that I have taught, we would meet once a week.  Excepting Thanksgiving and Christmas week, that is 50 classes a year.  At that rate, I have given you seven years of teaching. If you started reading this in the middle, go back and read the first posts.

I always told the members of the classes I taught that they would be ready to go work in the church when they had listened for three years.  That the rest of their knowledge should come from study on their own.  And they did.  Almost every one of them "got it" and found something to do in the church to serve others with their lives.  Kathleen, Susie, Anita, Linda, Sally, Kathy,  and dozens of others…they went to work teaching high school students, children, and adults.  I am now a great grandmother in the Lord from the lives of these women.  They bless my life.

You can teach someone as well.  Take what you know and share it.  The best way to be effective is to connect the gospel to a story from your life.  Tell someone how God has blessed you.  Don't hit them over the head with a Bible.  And remember, it takes time.

I have always made it a point to choose one person from the group each year to pour my life into.  They all know who they are.  They were always someone who was eager to learn.  Some people just wanted to listen.  Others wanted to learn.  You can't save the world.  But you can do it one person at a time.

People are dropping out of church the last few years.  It is a shame because the church is a wide open arena in which to serve God.  The church is full of hurt, lonely, searching people.  God gave us instructions on church attendance:  Hebrews 10: 24-25a  "And let us consider one another to provoke others unto love and good works:  Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another…"

Life isn't all about you.  It is about others.  Service to others is a necessary behavior to live a full life.  Service in a church is so very rewarding.  God said, "…let us consider one another…let us exhort (encourage) one another… let us provoke others to do good works…"

You can do it.