• Keepers Of The Aquarium

  Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Mar 14, 2023 (message contributor)

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  Scripture:  Romans 3:23

  Tags:  Evangelism, Grace, Sin, Salvation, Gospel, Witnessing, Lost, Pastors, Churches, Great Commission  (view more)  (view less)

  Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

The late Sam Shoemaker, an Episcopalian bishop, summed up the situation this way: "In the Great Commission the Lord has called us to be--like Peter--fishers of men. We've turned the commission around so that we have become merely keepers of the aquarium.

Occasionally I take some fish out of your fishbowl and put them into mine, and you do the same with my bowl. But we're all tending the same fish."

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