Frank’s Getting Out of the Boat Party

Yesterday Kelly, one of our Sunday School teachers, threw Frank a surprise “Getting off the Boat Party.” Friday was his last day on the job; he is now a full-time pastor.

Is our church big enough to support our family? No. Is our church organization paying our bills? No. Do some of our family and friends think we are crazy? Yes. Is it God’s will for him to quit? Yes.

We’ve known for about a year that God wanted Frank to quit his job. Sadly we let well-meaning friends and family talk us out of it. God didn’t tell them His plan for us. Like Peter, we looked at the wind and waves… the church is so small…what about insurance… Unlike Peter we looked at the wind and waves before jumping out of the boat.

During Conference God told us again that he wants Frank to be His employee and only His. This time we acted. Frank gave his notice and got off the job that had been taking him away from what God wants him to achieve. As Frank said God doesn’t want him working for ashes.

If God created the universe, and He did, surely He can take care of us. If God is our Father surely He wants to take care of us- He wants us to trust Him.

Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature? And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith? Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. Matthew 6:25-33

Either God’s Bible is true or it isn’t. Either we believe God or we don’t.

God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good? Numbers 23:19

This thing is bigger than just our family. Everybody at church knows about it. Our family knows about it. Now you do too. The believers and the unbelievers alike are watching to see what God will do.