The Ripple Effect

The Ripple Effect can be observed when a stone or a droplet of water is dropped into a still
pool of water. Long after the stone or droplet is no longer visible, we can see its effect on the
surface in the expanding ripples. This same ripple effect can be seen when someone
touches their finger to the water’s surface.

Our lives cause a rippple effect. The question is wheter our actionas and comments casue a positive or a negatice ripple.

In 1855, A Sunday School teacher, a Mr. Kimball, led a Boston shoe clerk to give his life to Christ. The clerk, Dwight L. Moody, became an evangelist.

In England in 1879, Dwight L. Moody awakened evangelistic zeal in the heart of Fredrick B. Meyer, pastor of a small church.

F.B. Meyer, preaching to an American college campus, brought to Christ a student named J. Wilbur Chapman.

J. Wilbur Chapman, engaged in YMCA work, employed a former baseball player, Billy Sunday, to do evangelistic work.

Bill Sunday held a revival in Charlotte, N.C. A group of local men were so enthusiastic afterward that they planned another evangelistic campaign, bringing Mordecai Hamm to town to preach.

During Mordecai Hamm's revival, a young man named Billy Graham heard the Gospel and yielded his life to Christ.

Only Eternity will reveal the tremendous impact of that one Sunday School teacher, Mr. Kimball, who invested his life in the lives of others.

Everything we do in the name of Jesus Christ has an effect which will be viewed through Eternity. We may not even know he impact of our "ripples" this side of eternity.