When Edwin H. Hughes was a young preacher, he served a rural Methodist church in the middle west. One day, in his sermon, he said that we own nothing; it all belongs to God.
After the service, a farmer took the preacher home for dinner, and after a sumptuous meal the two walk out to see the acres of farm land. The farmer told how he and his wife started out without a dime from anyone, but working together, they now possessed this farm. "If we don't own this farm, who does?" was the farmer's question to the preacher.
The preacher replied kindly. "Ask me that question one hundred years from today."
For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? Matthew 16:26
- dave langerfeld
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