“Behold, here is thy pound, which I kept laid up in a
napkin.” Luke 19:20
Napkins or handkerchiefs should be used for wiping off the
sweat of toil. No one’s napkin should be misapplied to the wrapping up of his talent.
Whether a church can grow prevailingly does not depend on whether or not those
who receive five talents, or ten, come forth and serve.
The weight of responsibility for growth rests on those
with one talent. If the one-talented are employed and growing, all in the
church will be well; but if they bury their talent, then the whole church
stagnates.
Thus we have only one hope; namely, that the weight of
emphasis in every local church should be placed, not on those who are
especially qualified, but on those less-gifted ones whom men despise. You have
to tell them that God approves of their wiping off the perspiration of honest
work for him, and that without it that work will not be done.
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