Topics:<\/b> Beginnings; Church; Faith; Humility; Ministry; Small Things; Vision<\/p>\n
References:<\/b> Zechariah 4:10; Mark 4:30\u201332; 12:41\u201344<\/p>\n
Almost two hundred years ago, Thomas Jefferson commissioned Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to find the source of the Missouri River, and from there to discover a relatively easy water route west to the Pacific. Such a waterway, they discovered, doesn\u2019t exist.<\/p>\n
But they did succeed in mapping the Northwest. And fifteen months after pushing themselves upstream, they found the headwaters of the mighty Missouri River near the Montana-Idaho border: a tiny little rivulet, which a member of the expedition, Private Hugh McNeal, straddled, thanking God that he had lived to put one foot on either side of the mighty and heretofore deemed endless Missouri.<\/p>\n
At its source, the Missouri looks a lot different from the powerful current that flows into the Mississippi River near St. Louis. Likewise, in the kingdom of God, many great things start out small.<\/p>\n
\u2014Marshall Shelley, \u201cBroader Pastures, More Breeds,\u201d Leadership<\/i> (Fall 2000)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Topics: Beginnings; Church; Faith; Humility; Ministry; Small Things; Vision References: Zechariah 4:10; Mark 4:30\u201332; 12:41\u201344 Almost two hundred years ago, Thomas Jefferson commissioned Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to find the source of the Missouri River, and from there to discover a relatively easy water route west to the Pacific. Such a waterway, they discovered, … Continue reading “STRADDLING
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