{"id":37230,"date":"2020-08-22T15:01:50","date_gmt":"2020-08-22T20:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mbcpathway.local\/?p=37230"},"modified":"2020-08-19T15:02:16","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T20:02:16","slug":"bringing-kingdom-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mbcpathway.com\/2020\/08\/22\/bringing-kingdom-relief\/","title":{"rendered":"Bringing Kingdom relief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It was hot. Now not any hotter than normal for late July in Missouri.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>It was only 97 degrees, well within expected ranges.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>But it felt unusually hot because as we drove across Missouri the vehicle in which I was driving no longer \u201cconditioned\u201d air.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">You see the day before, I harvested my first deer.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>I was on vacation in Colorado, and while I had planned on fly fishing (caught six my first time out, not bad I thought) I had not planned on going deer hunting.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">A 2017 Toyota Highlander is as effective as any firearm or crossbow, but in the deer\u2019s last act of defiance (the first was jumping in front of said Highlander), shrapnel from the collision punctured the condenser in the front of the car.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>I, at first, surmised the vapor escaping the front of the car was from the radiator.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>But was later informed by the mechanic it was the AC condenser which sits in front of the radiator.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>While the radiator was in fact bruised, (his words not mine), the condenser took one for the team.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In other words, the vehicle is drivable, just no air conditioning.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>With the choice of extending my vacation from Friday until Tuesday, when the part would come in, and then driving back home, I took the noble path and decided to begin the 16-hour journey home.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Since the headlights on one side of the car was also compromised, a night time trek was out of the question.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">We left early, at least for me, and we strategically transitioned from cool mountain air to Missouri heat and humidity at precisely the hottest time of the afternoon.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Now, I know our forefathers survived without AC, and most of the world continues to survive without such conveniences, but for this softy, my first world problem was real.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Then it happened.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Just when I thought I could not stand it anymore, the rain came.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I had been watching the clouds in the distance for the last six hours.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>They were puffy and white, while few and far between.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>I began to hope that if I could catch up to them, and they could come together then maybe, just maybe, what they had \u2013 cool, clear water \u2013 would drop from the sky and benefit us as well.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Earlier on the trip, basking in the AC I had labeled similar clouds \u201cBaptist Clouds\u201d, because they never came together to accomplish anything.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>But this time I was hoping, actually desperately needing them to come together to bring relief.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Just when I needed them most they did. The temperature dropped, even into the 70s for a while, and there was just enough respite to make it home.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I wonder how many people out there need us as Baptists to come together to bring relief.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The Cooperative Program is one way we do this.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Another way is when our entities work together on common causes increasing efficiencies and reducing costs (we are making progress on this and I look forward to sharing more about how your entities will be working together in the future).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Another way is to designate a portion of our assets to Kingdom advancing causes after we die.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>One of our prime objectives at MBF is for every Missouri Baptist to have an estate plan that leaves something to a Gospel Advancing ministry.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Imagine if every Missouri Baptist left something in their will, trust or made some other provision from the things we don\u2019t need anymore.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wonder how many people out there need us as Baptists to come together to bring 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