In the middle of three weekends invested with my wife visiting churches in the northern part of the Northern Atlantic Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches, Rachel and I joined Jack and Christine Brown in Essex, Massachusetts. Our son, Samuel, was also along. They responded well to my challenge to "preach the gospel," bearing the good news they have to people they know who need it!
In Providence, Rhode Island, one can stand at the riverside in the downtown, and see all the structures of authority and influence. In the smallest of our United States, one can pray with eyes wide open for "all who are in authority" to the One "who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth" (1 Timothy 2:2, 4).
We have no church in Providence, or any other community in Rhode Island.
On a drive through Massachusetts, I visited three towns briefly. One was Northampton, where Jonathan Edwards led a church during the first Great Awakening. Another was Enfield, where he preached the famous sermon, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God."
Apparenty the lampstand had been removed (Revelation 2:5)from many of the churches long ago. Now they are used for shops, museums and city halls. Northampton is now a center of radical feminism and the occult, and in Enfield only the tranisent literary works of men and women are memorialized near the church building where Edwards preached.
But thank God for the lampstand burning bright on the North Shore of Boston! Pray for the North Shore Bible Church, led by Jack Brown.
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