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Seventh-day Adventist Church
2003 NAB Offering Call
“Becoming Faithful Stewards”

Bate: July 5, 2003
Appeal: Local Church Budget
GOOD ENOUGH!!

If 99.9 percent were good enough then
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Two million documents will be lost by the IRS this year
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811,000 faulty rolls of 35 mm film will be loaded this year
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22,000 checks will be deducted from the bank accounts in the
next 60 minutes
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12 babies will be given to the wrong parents
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1,314 phone calls will be misplaced by the elecommunication
services every minute
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$762,000 will be spent in the next twelve months on tapes
and compact discs that won’t play
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20,000 incorrect drug prescriptions will be written in the
next 12 months
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880,00 credit cards in circulation will turn out to have
incorrect cardholder information on their magnetic strips
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18,322 piece of mail will be mishandled in the next hour
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5,517,200 cases of soft drinks produced in the next 12
months will be flat
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2,488,200 books will be shipped in the next 12 months with
the wrong cover

I’m very glad that God’s laws of physics operate at 100 percent. There would be major problems if God supplied oxygen only 99 percent of the year or rotated the earth only 99 percent of the time.

Further, I appreciate that God’s love, mercy and forgiveness is 100 percent of the time. Hence, it behooves us as Christians to show our appreciation to him by using our time wisely, using our talents for
His glory and returning our treasures to His cause.

Appeal text: “I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has given me strength, that he considered me faithful, appointing me to his service.” [1 Timothy
1:12 NIV]

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