We don't want to allow our knowledge to cause us to fall into pride, arrogance and self will. These things get in the way of our salvation because God can't work with them. False or inaccurate perceptions are different from leading others astray. Different from thinking one has discovered a new truth. Inaccurate perceptions will not adversely affect their worship of God. In matters of knowledge never let what you don't yet know get in the way of what you do know.

Rick Beam

(1950-2024)

Rick Beam was born and grew up in northeast Mississippi. He graduated from Ambassador College Big Sandy, Texas, in 1972, and was ordained into the ministry in 1975. From 1978 until his death in 2024, he pastored congregations in the south, west and midwest. His final pastorate was for the United Church of God congregations in Rome, (Georgia), Gadsden (Alabama) and Chattanooga (Tennessee).