"A good name is better than precious ointment" (Eccl. 7:1) "Only let not your good be evil spoken of" (Rom. 14:16). Timothy was "well reported of by the brethren" (Acts 16:2). Surely, we would rather be held in respect than despised.
But sometimes perceptions are unjust. Ahab’s perception of Elijah was that he was the one who "troubleth Israel" (1 Kings 18:17). It was really the other way around.
October 17, 2008th Year of Our Lord
HALBROOK REPORT: 31st PHILIPPINE TRIP JULY 31-AUG. 22, 2008
Dear brethren,
When Jim McDonald first took me to the Philippines in 1995, doors of opportunity for spreading the gospel and fields white unto harvest were abundant. My 31st trip July 31-August 22 found the doors still open and the fields still ripe. Kurt Jones of Dumas, TX made his first trip and proved to be a faithful and effective evangelist. I taught 46 times and Kurt a similar number. We counted 78 baptisms and learned of additional baptisms before and after going home.
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Mike Willis
But when the Pharisees had heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, they were gathered together. Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying, Master, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets (Matt. 22:34-40).
