What God has done in the incarnation, death, and resurrection of Jesus is no private affair for a few. It is God’s decisive action for His whole family and for His whole creation. It is for all the nations.
Only half of the pastor’s work is to gather the people together for worship. The other half is to send them back to their daily tasks equipped to be the salt of the earth and the light of the world. If we forget this second part, the other can be positively dangerous.
Without His incarnation there could be no cross and no salvation.
Without His words and works we should not know who it was that died for us there.
Without His resurrection the cross would not be known to us as victory but as defeat.
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The 4 Reasons for the Shallow Discipleship in our Churches:
- We are more active for God than our inner life can sustain.
- We disconnect emotional health and spiritual maturity.
- We ignore the riches of the larger, historical church.
- We define success wrongly.
I more and more find the precious part of each day to be the thirty or forty minutes I spend each morning before breakfast with the Bible. All the rest of the day I am bombarded with the stories that the world is telling about itself.
We are now forced to do something that the Western churches have never had to do since the days of their own birth – to discover the form and substance of a missionary church.