Emphasis Preaching Journal

Pastor Smith received an interesting phone call from a member of his church. The church was in the midst of raising money to build new Sunday school rooms. This particular man was calling because he wanted to make a gift to the church to help out this cause. But wanting to make sure his investment would pay off, he wanted to know that if something were to happen to him or his wife, the church would bury them. "We aren't very involved," he confessed to the pastor, "but we want to support the church now so it will support us later."