Volume 39 Number 12                                                                                     August 1997

General Dwight Eisenhower once rebuked one of his Generals for referring to a soldier as "just a Private". He reminded him that the Army could function better without its Generals than it could without its foot soldiers. "If this war is won," he said, "it will be won by the Privates."

In the same way, the common, ordinary, one-talent Christians are the very backbone of the church. If the work of the church is to be done, if the gospel is to be taken to the lost, it will be the "ordinary" Christians who get the job done.