I Once Shot a Woodpecker

I was looking through the hometown newspaper the other day and I came across this:

A speaker was lecturing on Forest Reserve.

Speaker: I don’t suppose that there is a person in the house who has done a single thing to conserve our timber resources. Silence ruler for several seconds, and then a meek voice from the rear of the hall timidly retorted, ‘I once shot a woodpecker.’

“Conserving timber resources was the thing of most importance to the speaker in this story, and it seems that he was trying to impress upon everyone else this important fact. The man who had “once shot a woodpecker” had done very little toward accomplishing the end the speaker had mentioned.

That put me to thinking about something a little different but extremely more important. What have we ( I ) done toward making the church of which I am a member the most effective in reaching others with the gospel?

The answer comes back, “I once shot a woodpecker.”

Has this ever happened to you?

Author Unknown