Poem found on a barracks wall by John F Kennedy

God and the soldier all men adore,
In time of war and not before;
But, when war is ended and all thing righted,
God is forgotten, and the old soldier forgotten.

Editor: You have to be real dumb if you cannot see the parallel between that poem by a US soldier in Vietnam and our modern church age. How are you treating the old soldiers in your fellowship, pastor? And, after the big building is built, and the numbers swell, what do you brag on, your numbers, your baptisms, your calling program, and your bus routes, or do you still brag on Jesus and the mercy of God when you were nothing?

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You're paid to stop a bullet,
It's a soldier's job they say,
But, when you stop a bullet,
They will stop your pay.

Editor: In all your budgeting for the glorious building and bus ministry you are planning, what are you doing for the widows. Do you realize the New Testament Church had only one list mentioned- the list of widows. They did not have a membership list. You have that all neat and tidy, but I would bet you don't have a widow's list, do you?

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