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Full Disclosure: I am not the Cleaver who usually does the writing. But I feel compelled today to make some observations from attending the 2022 meeting of the Baptist Missionary Association of America in Springfield, Mo. These are random thoughts that crossed my mind over the last five days and 1,243 miles:
• I am overjoyed to report that I found the BMA to be alive and well! Thanks be to God who has raised up men and women to carry on the traditions and practices of this association. ...
“So David inquired of the Lord: ‘Should I launch an attack against these Philistines?’” (I Sam. 23:2).
What courage! What audacity! What brilliance! What boldness to inquire of the Lord! Was not David a great military general? Could he not rely on his inner self to guide this plan? Didn’t David have those around him he could rely on to plan an attack on the enemy?
Yes, David could have...