His Legacy – From Paul ‘Grey Owl’ Walters, National FCF President As Organizational Leaders in the Royal Rangers ministry, we are responsible to help in building a legacy. It is the Lord’s legacy and not our own. Sometimes there may be the tendency to worry about how those around us see and think of us. If we concentrate on building up the “man” in ourselves it is easy to loose focus. My siblings and myself are privileged to be third generation Assemblies of God Pentecostal adherents. My grandfather, Floyd Walters, was handed a Pentecostal tract by a mechanic at an auto repair shop and decided to take his family out of what would be considered a cold denomination and switch to an Assemblies of God church. My father, Paul Walters, became an Assemblies of God minister in the Potomac and Penn-Del Districts and though now retired still serves in a fill-in role for churches. My siblings and myself are involved in ministry as well. If any one of a generation decided that serving the Lord would be about one’s self or would drift away from the Lord than the Lord’s legacy and the furthering of His kingdom would be affected. Both my grandfather and my father before me were not concerned about building a legacy to themselves. And so now this responsibility and calling to continue to build a legacy for Christ falls to my generation. My brother’s, Dwight and Steve and my sister, Becky have a duty and responsibility to the fourth and future generations of Walters to follow. Not only is this legacy built in our families, it must be built in our churches and the Royal Rangers ministry. As Royal Rangers leaders, we must not be concerned about building up ourselves, but we must strive to build and raise up the next generation that will follow. It has to be our prayer, desire and passion. It falls to us as leaders to begin raising up leaders both for today and tomorrow. This will make our ministry of Royal Rangers strong and ensure that it will even be much more effective in the future. Let’s work hard on His legacy. It is truly worth the effort. “Unless the Lord builds the house, its builders labor in vain”, Psalm 127:1 |