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Joining Hands

Thursday, February 24th, 2005

In 1985, during the Southern Baptist Convention’s Pastor’s Conference, W. A. Criswell, former Pastor of the First Southern Baptist Church of Dallas, TX told a story. The story was about a little boy who got lost in a giant wheat field in Kansas just at harvest time. By the time the mother of the little boy realized that he was missing, several hours had gone by. She had been busy preparing dinner for the hands that were helping harvest the wheat and had not noticed that he was missing. She frantically raced to the field where her husband and the hired people were working and they began to search. One of the hands was dispatched to the neighbors to get help to look for the little boy. They searched for hours, but were not able to find him. Finally the father of the little boy asked all the hired people (Read the rest of the story below the fold...)


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