District Missionary Lucy Hill

Central Georgia Jurisdiction /Bishop Chandler D. Owens

District Missionary Lucy Hill is a faithful working in her local, district and jurisdictional church.  She is a light in her community.  Her ministry has been widespread reaching children of all ages, helping young single mothers with parenting skills, caring for the elderly in nursing facilities and hospitals, and loving foster children.  She is an author of her autobiography covering the topic which she will share on.  The title of her book “Walking Through the Line of Fire:  My Personal Testimony of Courage and Deliverance”

Presenter:  District Missionary Lucy Hill

This is a class for Sunday school instructors to learn how to minister and give hope to those in their class who are unequally yoked.  You will learn methods to help strengthen the faith and hope of those in troubled marriages who are attending your class.

I.                   Clear cut instruction in I Corinthians 7 is given for the unequally yoked husband and wife in the scriptures from verses10-16.  While we know that it is best not to get into unequally yoked relationships in the first place (II Corinthians 6:14, 15), the church has a renewed surge to win souls for Christ.  Two people may have been equally yoked together not living for God, if one gives their live as a result of community church efforts to get people saved and the spouse does not make that choice:  THEN WHAT?

a)     No matter what the reasoning for the unequally yoked situation, it is imperative that the church be prepared to help its members deal with the situations that Paul has described in I Corinthians 7:14-16.

b)    Another one of Paul’s lessons to help in this situation for a spouse is his lesson of love or charity.  I Corinthians 13: 3-8.  It is love that will cover a multitude of faults.  The love of God has to be taught to those who are in situations such as this.

II.               Faith must be built up in the spouse who is living and seeing the unbelieving spouse she lives with defy the laws of the God that she so loves.

a)     Traditionally, it has been the church that has supported women in these situations.   Advice to women is not the emphasis here on the decisions to make in this situation, but the strength to lean and depend upon God while going through until that unbelieving spouse says “yes” to the will of God.

b)    The vital need for getting the word incorporated into her life and developing a strong pray life is what it takes to stand in a relationship like this.

c)     Learning to see beyond the behavior of that unbelieving spouse is where faith comes in.  The Shunnamite women had to see beyond the child who had died in her arms to say “It shall be well.”  I Kings 4:23.  Whether the spouse you see is living the live of victory that you would like, can you say all is well until he does!

Conclusion:  The Sunday school offers a multiplicity of opportunities for women to utilize the scriptures to learn what is best in these situations.  This is the time to break down scripture, minister to those in the class who have supportive needs, and encourage those living in households with these problems.  There are three major points that can be developed in a class like this.  1)  Women must strengthen their bonds of love to God and their families, 2) Building the women’s faith in the God she serves, 3) Helping her learn the most important steps of soul winning are started in the home