The Power of a Woman's Words to Fellow Believers

This was the chapter I studied last week. Once again this chapter was a good reminder of how much our words affect those around us and also how desperately people long to be encouraged. In the opening pages of this chapter Mrs. Jaynes shows how that even Paul needed and longed for encouragement from other believers. Later in the chapter she shares a plan for growing "God's Garden" (a healthy church)

God's Garden

Plant three rows of squash:
- Squash gossip
- Squash criticism
- Squash indifference.

Plant seven rows of peas:
- Prayer
- Promptness
- Perseverance
- Politeness
- Preparedness
- Purity
- Patience

Plant seven heads of lettuce:
- Let us be unslefish and loyal.
- Let us be faithful to duty.
- Let us search the Scriptures.
- Let us not be weary in well-doing.
- Let us be truthful.
- Let us love one another.

- Robert J. Moran

"How wonderful it would be if we used our words to try to "out nice" each other among our brothers and sisters in the church."