Title: The Three Men
Author: Donald Cantrell
Text: 3 John 1:1-14
I - The Commendable & Delightful One (1 - 8, 13 - 14)
II - The Controlling & Dominant One (9 - 11)
III - The Consistent & Dependable One (12)
"A Broken-down Car"
3Jo 1:5 KJV - Beloved, thou doest faithfully whatsoever thou doest to the brethren, and to strangers...
I'm a Corvair man! That means that I drive old, forty years or more, cars with air-cooled engines and no shoulder harnesses. Since I've been driving these cars since I was sixteen, I've grown accustomed to them, even preferring them to all other cars. I don't collect old cars; I drive them.
For some people that would seem a rather risky proposition.
When they look at an old car, they see forty-year-old ball joints, pistons, bearings and heater fans. These are things that just have to break sometime and, after forty years, it is likely that it will happen when you least expect it at the most inconvenient time. Their worst fear would be that they would be driving along some lonely back road and "bang!"
Now what would you do?
I must admit that the thought sometimes passes my mind as well. I know that my car is old. It was manufactured in 1965 and the steel, rubber, plastic and leather in the car, although remarkably preserved, is well past its prime.
However, there is really only one aspect of driving the car that ever bothers me. Since Corvair engines are air-cooled, there is a very critical fan belt that travels from the cooling fan over a pulley and down to the crankshaft.
When that belt breaks, the engine will quickly overheat and make driving the car impossible. He had learned over the years to always carry a spare fan belt and the proper tools for removing the old one and installing the new one.
He learned this, however, only after suffering just such a breakdown on a very lonely back road with nothing but a very distant farm house in sight.
There I sat and it was getting d ...
Author: Donald Cantrell
Text: 3 John 1:1-14
I - The Commendable & Delightful One (1 - 8, 13 - 14)
II - The Controlling & Dominant One (9 - 11)
III - The Consistent & Dependable One (12)
"A Broken-down Car"
3Jo 1:5 KJV - Beloved, thou doest faithfully whatsoever thou doest to the brethren, and to strangers...
I'm a Corvair man! That means that I drive old, forty years or more, cars with air-cooled engines and no shoulder harnesses. Since I've been driving these cars since I was sixteen, I've grown accustomed to them, even preferring them to all other cars. I don't collect old cars; I drive them.
For some people that would seem a rather risky proposition.
When they look at an old car, they see forty-year-old ball joints, pistons, bearings and heater fans. These are things that just have to break sometime and, after forty years, it is likely that it will happen when you least expect it at the most inconvenient time. Their worst fear would be that they would be driving along some lonely back road and "bang!"
Now what would you do?
I must admit that the thought sometimes passes my mind as well. I know that my car is old. It was manufactured in 1965 and the steel, rubber, plastic and leather in the car, although remarkably preserved, is well past its prime.
However, there is really only one aspect of driving the car that ever bothers me. Since Corvair engines are air-cooled, there is a very critical fan belt that travels from the cooling fan over a pulley and down to the crankshaft.
When that belt breaks, the engine will quickly overheat and make driving the car impossible. He had learned over the years to always carry a spare fan belt and the proper tools for removing the old one and installing the new one.
He learned this, however, only after suffering just such a breakdown on a very lonely back road with nothing but a very distant farm house in sight.
There I sat and it was getting d ...
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