"Plant The Good Seed"

The story is told of a pioneer preacher was one day preaching on the topic, “The Bible can be understood” to a small group who had gathered on the street, when an atheist ridiculed him saying, “Preacher, if the Bible is so easily understood, who don’t more people understand it?”

The preacher replied, “If I want to grow turnips, though I might have good seed and the best of soil, I must first grub out the weeds. People can easily understand the Bible, but first one must grub out the denominational errors which have filled their hearts. Once this is done, one can plant the good seed and have good results.”

Beloved, let’s follow the pioneer preacher’s advice and just “plant the good seed” (Luke 8:11) in “good ground” (Luke 8:15),  so we too will have “good results” (1 Corinthians 3:6-7).

—Mike Riley, Gospel Snippets