All Believers Are Not Alike. We must not expect all believers in Christ to be exactly like one another. We must not set down others as having no grace, because their experience does not entirely tally with our own. The sheep in the Lord's flock have each their own peculiarities. The trees in the Lord's garden are not all precisely alike. All true servants of God agree in the principal things of religion. All are led by one Spirit. All feel their sins, and all trust in Christ.

Vocation and Service. Called individually. In the New Testament the Greek verb to 'call' occurs about 150 times, and in most cases God is calling human beings. In the Old Testament God called Moses, Samuel and the prophets; in the New Testament Jesus called the Twelve and later Saul of Tarsus. Today, although we are neither prophets nor apostles, he still calls us into his service. It is a wonderful fact that God cares about us enough to call us personally and individually.

A childlike dependence. In his public teaching ministry Jesus commended humility as the pre-eminent characteristic of the citizens of God's kingdom, and went on to describe it as the humility of a child ... Many people are puzzled by this teaching, since children are seldom humble in either character or conduct. Jesus must therefore have been alluding to their humility of status, not behaviour. Children are rightly called 'dependants'. They depend on their parents for everything.

Bishop Lawrence has nothing to fear. If Bishop Dorsey Henderson, President of the Title IV Disciplinary Board of the Episcopal Church, his ecclesiastical henchmen and the SC Forum gang in the diocese continue their scorched earth policy against the bishop, they will meet with serious resistance. The bishop has more than 90% of the diocese behind him.