Today, I am thinking of my card-carrying, Southern Baptist brothers (Rick Warren, Henry Blackaby) and SBC sisters who are set apart to exercise spiritual gifts (with the blessing of their local churches). Whoever you may be, I hope this song I wrote years ago will lead you back to God's Word to read afresh the Gospel accounts of Christ's response to Pilate, Herod, soldiers, thieves, and others who heaped insults upon Him. He is a good role model for each one of us. Love, Rob Patterson songwriter, singer 1 Peter 2:19-25 "For it is commendable if a man bears up under the pain of unjust suffering because he is conscious of God. But how is it to your credit if you receive a beating for doing wrong and endure it? But if you suffer for doing good and you endure it, this is commendable before God. To this you were called, because Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in his steps. He committed no sin, and no deceit was found in his mouth. When they! hurled their insults at him, he did not retaliate; when he suffered, he made no threats. Instead, he entrusted himself to him who judges justly. He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed. For you were like sheep going astray, but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls." Titus 2:11-15 "For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men. It teaches us to say 'No
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