More, or Better?

 "And the apostles said to the Lord, increase our faith. So the Lord said, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, be pulled up by the roots and be planted in the sea, and it would obey you." Luke 17:5-6

In this verse the apostles asked for bigger and better methods. They thought that by having more they could do more. If we had more men or more money or bigger churches we could really do a lot for you, Lord. But Jesus responded by talking about quality of their faith, not how much faith they had. Jesus told them, as he tells us today, that a little good faith can do more than a truck load of tradition.

Just because you find yourself on third base does not mean you have hit a triple. The guy who strikes out and the guy who hits a home run both end up in the same place. On the bench.

Some people are underwhelmed the first time they visit the Prescott church and find out how ordinary the Prescott saints are. They are not the best and the brightest. But they have been faithful to do what they could.

In the end we are all unprofitable servants who have only done what was required of us. This really is a work of God, not the product of human intellect or man's genius.