BARNABUS, MR. ENCOURAGER (6 OF 10)
by Rex Yancey
Barnabus, Mr. Encourager (6 of 10)
Series: Sermon Starters
Rex Yancey
Acts 4:36
Charles Lowery, founder and president of Lowery Institute for Excellence shared some of the following thoughts in an article in SBC Life. Charles Plumb, a US Naval Academy graduate who flew jets in Viet- Nam, was shot down by a surface to air missile. He ejected and parachuted into the jungle where the Viet Cong captured him and held him prisoner for six years in North Vietnam. Today, he lectures on lessons learned from that experience.
One day, he and his wife were sitting in a restaurant and a man from another table came over and said, ''You are Charles Plumb who flew jet fighters in Vietnam from the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk. You were shot down!'' Plumb asked how in the world he knew that. This man told him, ''I packed your parachute!'' Plumb gasped in surprise. The man held out his hand and said, ''I guess it worked.'' Plumb assured him it did and said, ''If your handiwork had not worked, I wouldn't be here today.''
The pilot couldn't sleep that night, thinking about the stranger. He wondered how many times he might have seen him and not spoken because he was a fighter pilot. After all, this man who packed his parachute was just a sailor. Plumb wondered how many hours that sailor had spent at a long wooden table in the bowels of the ship carefully weaving the shrouds and folding th ...
Series: Sermon Starters
Rex Yancey
Acts 4:36
Charles Lowery, founder and president of Lowery Institute for Excellence shared some of the following thoughts in an article in SBC Life. Charles Plumb, a US Naval Academy graduate who flew jets in Viet- Nam, was shot down by a surface to air missile. He ejected and parachuted into the jungle where the Viet Cong captured him and held him prisoner for six years in North Vietnam. Today, he lectures on lessons learned from that experience.
One day, he and his wife were sitting in a restaurant and a man from another table came over and said, ''You are Charles Plumb who flew jet fighters in Vietnam from the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk. You were shot down!'' Plumb asked how in the world he knew that. This man told him, ''I packed your parachute!'' Plumb gasped in surprise. The man held out his hand and said, ''I guess it worked.'' Plumb assured him it did and said, ''If your handiwork had not worked, I wouldn't be here today.''
The pilot couldn't sleep that night, thinking about the stranger. He wondered how many times he might have seen him and not spoken because he was a fighter pilot. After all, this man who packed his parachute was just a sailor. Plumb wondered how many hours that sailor had spent at a long wooden table in the bowels of the ship carefully weaving the shrouds and folding th ...
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