Stand in the Gap

Christian-news-in-maine.com ^ | 11 September, 2004 | Staff report

[newsgatherer]

I guess it was about 6 years ago that Washington, DC hosted Promise Keepers for the Stand in the Gap rally. That rally brought together over one million Christian men from all over the country. For a short period of time after that raly, we saw men standing up ad filling gaps around the nation. They filled these gaps not as men in a secular society, looking for fame and profit, but as men dedicated to serving Christ and giving Him the glory. Men willing to be not the head or the eyes or even the feet of the Body of Christ, but men willing to be, as Paul so aptly says, " our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness." First Corinthians 12:23b KJV

But, like all things that require pain, suffering and putting Christ an others ahead of oneself, as time went by less and less men came forward to fill gaps. They instead left these gaps up to the government or others to fill.

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[newsgatherer]

Today, we at Christian-news-in-maine.com are proud to introduce you a man and his ministry, a man willing to be an uncomely part. A man, whose ministry is sorely needed here in Maine, a man and his family who have not only given their lives to Christ, but have heard His still small vice and are willing to obey it. A man and a ministry standing the gap.