I just watched my favorite preacher, Pastor Mark Hughes, on Church of the Rock, and his message was about the need for Christianity in the world today. Not just ministers and missionaries and counselors, but Christian politicians, Christian university professors, and on down the line to plumbers, and other mainstream laborers. It's our job as Christians to be brave about it, and go forth into the world and spread the Word of God.

Well, as a mere tractor parts internet retailer, it's my job to do what I do in a Christian manner. I try. I may not always succeed, but I try. The Lord says not to be ashamed of Him, or He will be ashamed of us in front of His Father. I surely don't want that! Not in a million years. I fall a long shot short of the glory of anything, much less God Himself, so I have to try to be brave about my faith in what I do.

How can I be a Christian tractor parts seller? It's easy--I have a website that a lot of people visit, with a weblog, so I occaisionally sneak in a little jab for my Good Shepherd. I put a Christian link at the top and the bottom of my links page. I often give a wish for God's blessings to my customers; anything to keep their eye on the prize, and to help, in my own little way, to spread the Word.

You can do the same, whether you be a surgeon, and pray with your patients before an operation (hint: if you don't already know this, it HELPS!), or a mechanic, and give your customers an invoice with 'Jesus loves you' on it, or a florist, and you just bid your clients, "God Bless" on their way out. Remember, sometimes all it takes is sowing a little seed, and God makes a mighty oak grow out of it. You may never know whose life you might dramatically change with the tiniest little nudge in the right direction. This is part of your commitment to God where He gives you a talent (a denomination of money in Biblical times), and you are expected to collect INTEREST with it. Don't bury your faith and salvation in the sand, because, in the Lord's parable about this, He called the servant that did this 'wicked'. It is our duty to SPREAD the Word of God like sowing wheat seed on the ground, and don't worry about the rest--the Lord is coming back to reap what we have sown! His angels are also coming to gather and throw the weeds (the un-Godly and unrepentant) into the furnace (guess what and where that is).

There are those of you who may think this is a bunch of rubbish, and it has no place on a commercial tractor parts website, and you aren't 'gonna buy from someone like that'; well, you can keep your money, because the Lord will recompense in kind for faith, and for rejection.

Please understand I'm not attempting to offend anyone, no matter how it might seem, because we are not to offend; I am just standing my ground that I have the right to spread the Word on my own little stake of internet property. Even if I won't be financially recompensed for my boldness, I'd far rather be financially poor for it here on earth, than rejected in Heaven in turn for my own rejection of the Word of God. Think about that. Dwell on it, and BE HONEST WITH YOURSELF. You know, deep in your heart, mind, and soul there's more to this life than the face value of it, and you don't want to be cast off in the hereafter any more than I do.

If you're a Christian, be bold in the Word, and spread the seed of the Word through your occupation and contact with your colleagues and clientelle, and if you're not, then, please at least think about it. The world and nothing in it is an accident; the bogus, bandied-about result of a 'big bang', and neither are you; you were CREATED BY GOD, and all you have to do is open the door to your heart if you hear Him knocking, and He will for sure enter into you, and change your life for the better. Then it'll your turn to feel the reward of spreading the Good News.