Somebody ought to say...

Thank you. Thank you for serving to live a godly life as a teacher of God’s Truth. Thank you for the hours of study you put in each week in the midst of ministering to the needs of others. Thank you for the years of study that now provide a deep pool and grasp of God’s Way. Thank you for caring for others before your own needs and wishes. Thank you for agonizing each week over the right word and right words to enlighten, move, and motivate those who hear you. Thank you for so ordering your world that a part of this world looks more like His World should. Thank you for not giving up on people who so many others would wash their hands of. Thank you for the tenderness with which you treat the young and the old. Thank you for lessons designed to be relaxant to each listener Thank you for striving for consistency in your beliefs. Thank you for striving to not be quarrelsome in a world who wants only to contend against the Word we believe. Thank you for avoiding foolish questions which would only divide us. Thank you for being so anchored in the Word of God that every wind of doctrine does not send you adrift in a sea of modernism. Thank you for continuing to grow your faith in good days and difficult throughout your life. Thank you for loving God, His Word, and His People. And, thank you for doing it each week, for rewinding and repeating and not quitting when this get tough. We know sometimes this is tough, taxing, and tedious work that is unending, often unappreciated, and even frustrating. So we just wanted to say, Thank you.