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1 | Your thoughts on 40 Days of Purpose? | 2 Tim 4:2 | Hank | 158689 | ||
Dear newoldstock: Having been in the church for 56 years, I've had occasion to see many things "sweep through" many churches. All that most of them do is stir up a little dust for a while, but the dust soon settles back down to where it came from without effecting permanent change. Whatever happened to expositional preaching and teaching from the Word of God? Are churches so bent out of shape and have so dramatically lost their way that they have become so deplete and so desperate for material that they feel constrained to hitch their wagon to every weak little twinking star that comes floating along? It seems to me that the books that John, Matthew, Paul, Peter, Mark and Luke wrote have a decided edge on anything Mr. Warren ever wrote. The church's marching orders on what to preach is given in 2 Timothy 4:2 and on what to study in 2 Timothy 2:15 and 3:16. The Christian must live all his days with purpose, not just 40 of them! --Hank | ||||||
2 | Your thoughts on 40 Days of Purpose? | 2 Tim 4:2 | newoldstock | 158720 | ||
Hi Hank, Amen to the expositional preaching! I think that your thoughts are right on with this. I would rather read and/or hear what God wrote than what a man wrote anyday. Thanks, Jim |
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3 | Your thoughts on 40 Days of Purpose? | 2 Tim 4:2 | Hank | 158724 | ||
Dear Jim: For many years I taught an adult Sunday school class. During my tenure the class worked its way through most of the New Testament verse-by-verse. One day after class one of the students, a perky young lady of pronounced ideas and opinions, came up to me and read me the riot act. She said she was sick and tired of studying the Bible because it was so boring and accused me in so many words of being in a rut. She presented me with a laundry list of the new directions she wanted the class to pursue. She wanted it to explore other study materials, new and exciting ideas, current events, philosophy, world religions -- her list included just about everything but Bible study. ...... To this day I am happy that I did not yield to the demands of this young woman. In time she left my class and soon thereafter drifted away from the church. For her the time had come when she would no longer endure sound doctrine, just as the Scripture says in 2 Timothy 4:3. ...... This episode that occurred in my class a quarter century ago is a grim reminder of much of the restless foolishness that is going on in a shocking number of churches at the present time. ..... Readers of this Forum may recall a religious radio program called "Back To the Bible." I've always liked that title. Christians round the world ought to adopt it as as their slogan and send its message to the church and its leadership. Oh what decay I've personally seen in the church in the last half century! There is left only a thin frail line that distinguishes the church from the world, and it grows even thinner day by day. If ever there was a time to go "back to the Bible," this is it. --Hank | ||||||
4 | Your thoughts on 40 Days of Purpose? | 2 Tim 4:2 | humbledbyhisgrace | 158732 | ||
Dear Hank, So well said brother! I second your motion and couldn't agree more. Back to the Bible! No point in looking anywhere else when you have God's truth in His word right at your finger tips. I just wanted to add my Amen to your post. Some times someone will make a post that to me really makes a statement and yours just did! God bless you brother Hank and may all our brothers and sisters in Christ do just what you said, get back to the word of God and leave the rest of the world where it is. |
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