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1 | Fear God! | 1 Pet 1:17 | Hank | 35808 | ||
Wak, your observation on the 80/20 rule may well apply to who sells the most widgets, but can you honestly apply it as a guideline for Christian shepherds whose command to feed His sheep comes from none other than the Lord Jesus Christ? (John 21:17) Paul's word to Timothy was "Preach the word!" (2 Tim.4:2). In this there can be no 80/20; it must be 100/0. God's message doesn't "need to be balanced," wak. It is already perfect (Ps.19:7) Our burden is not to decide how much emphasis we place on love and how much on fearing the Lord. Our burden is to preach the word in its perfection and in its completeness without fear or favor. Any attempt to filter out what we don't like to hear and rivet attention only to the things we do like to hear is to distort the full message of God. It is not a proper handling of the word of truth. (2 Tim.2:15). --Hank | ||||||
2 | Fear God! | 1 Pet 1:17 | wak | 35845 | ||
Hank To answer your question directly if the 80/20 rule applies to God's Shepard's (like widgets), I would ballpark it and say that 80 percent of preachers, preach a biased message. I wholeheartily agree with you that it should be 100/0, but even the Christian world doesn't work that way. I doubt it ever has... even from day 1. |
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3 | Fear God! | 1 Pet 1:17 | Hank | 35851 | ||
Wak, you are no doubt quite right. The church has never walked in the pure and perfect steps of Christ purely and perfectly in all its days. And, as you say, it should, and because we miss the mark so often and so far excuses us not in the least to cease to "press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus." (Phil.3:14) | ||||||