Reuben Ewert and Living the Truth Ministries

I shudder when I hear someone compare churches or pastors. We have preached in over four hundred churches across Europe and America and there are no two churches or pastors alike. In one church everyone stands while they sing hymns. In the next church they stay seated while they sing the first and last stanzas only. Offerings are often taken in a variety of ways from passing the plate down the row to providing a box at the back door. The list of these little differences can be lengthy.

Pastors differ in many little ways. Some roam across the platform and others stay frozen while reading from a manuscript. Some preach lengthy sermons while others preach twenty minutes and not one minute longer. This list can be lengthy as well.

If I continued to list the differences that are expressed you would probably put them in the category of “petty’. More often than not the real reason for the movement from one church to the next is “petty” or self centered.

Where has” loyalty” gone?. It used to be that there was loyalty throughout our culture. In the business place the employer was loyal to the employee and vice versa. They stuck together for thirty years working out their differences. The same was true in sports and marriage and in the church. In contrast, today I find people moving from one church to another for such unbiblical reasons as “everybody else was leaving”

Perhaps we should realize that we are not at the last church with the last pastor. We are placed in this congregation to help this pastor and this people to be an expression of His grace in this place, Leave the last church and the last pastor and move in to minister in this church and this pastor. Be loyal.

I will be posting helpful articles on my website very often. Go to “livingthetruthministries.org” When you look under “Resources” and click on “articles” you will find a growing archive of helpful articles which you can print and examine. I recently posted an article which began like this..

WHAT’S ON YOUR MIND? By Reuben Ewert

You can be strong, encouraged, refreshed, and passionate if you frequently keep your mind stayed on God’s sufficiencies (II Corinthians 12:9, Isaiah 26:3).

You will become downhearted, discouraged, depressed, and wore out if you focus your mind on your deficiencies…...

(Look at my website under”’Resources” for the rest of this article.)

Evelyn and I are committed to challenging, inspiring and training as many as we can for the rest of our lives to Live the Word not just Know the word.

We left our home in Pensacola last Thursday to hold meetings on New York, Michigan, and Indiana. The trip to New York took us three days. We stopped to see our daughter and her husband, Trina and Andy Thiry, in Chattanooga. The next two days were refreshing as we took our time going through Virginia and Pennsylvania.

Nothing was as rewarding as returning to our calling. We just completed our first Biblical living conference after being off the road for almost six months. We preached six messages over the four days. Our messages all had something to do with “walking in newness of life”

The meetings were held in Sempronius, New York. People from churches in Alpine, Covert, and Auburn attended on various nights. Over the past thirty years we have held meetings in at least fifteen churches and pastors fellowships across New York. On Saturday, January 23, we will move on to Alpine, New York to begin another four day Biblical Living Conference

We are two days away from getting our ministry back on the road after some months of repair work on our bodies. We will be in the north for nearly two months of meetings. We plan to keep holding meetings until…… However, we realize that we will need to slow down sometime and want do our part to keep the Biblical Living emphasis alive by ministering through this website. Our son-in-law Aaron Ebert is constructing the site. We will try to keep in touch as the site is developed. We welcome your suggestions.