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NASB | 2 Timothy 4:2 preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with great patience and instruction. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 2 Timothy 4:2 preach the word [as an official messenger]; be ready when the time is right and even when it is not [keep your sense of urgency, whether the opportunity seems favorable or unfavorable, whether convenient or inconvenient, whether welcome or unwelcome]; correct [those who err in doctrine or behavior], warn [those who sin], exhort and encourage [those who are growing toward spiritual maturity], with inexhaustible patience and [faithful] teaching. |
Bible Question: My UMC is preparing to start 40 Days of Purpose based on Rick Warren's book The Purpose Driven Life. I have some problems with the book. It has a lot of good stuff in it also, but the bad seems to out weigh the good. What do you think about this movement that is sweeping through many churches? |
Bible Answer: 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 |