Bible Question:
My question is out of the 28 full time pastors how many are amongst the lost preaching the gospel. Jesus, the apostles and the discipes all witnessed to the lost that's why they were saved. Mos people on Sunday mornings are saved (a few with exception.) The lost are not in the church. When are Pastor's going to start fulfilling their jobs? This church can obviously afford a 7 mil dollar building project with no problem so I am sure it can afford to support very widow in a hunred mile radious, not to mention 70,000 per month on food for the poor and needy at the church first, right. |
Bible Answer: Well I can’t say for sure but somebody must be doing something right because the Lord sure is blessing the work beyond measure and we have missionaries that we support all over the world. And as I stated before it is all being done but just communicating the Word without the Madison Avenue techniques and gimmicks which it what we were talking about in the first place. The way I see it the pastors are suppose to feed the flock and teach them how to reach the lost. Those within the congregation are the ones who are to go out with the message of the Gospel to the unsaved and then once they believe the message introduce them to the church where they can grow and be taught to do the same. 2 Tim. 2:2 And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also. People get it all mixed up thinking that the job of a pastor is to reach the lost; that is a very secondary position at best. It is our job as the recipients of the pastor’s good sound teaching, with his ability to dig into the deeper thing of God’s, to go out and reach people in our everyday life and community. Everybody wants to push this off on the pastors but his main responsibility is to study and teach; study and teach those that we bring to him. We are not all called to be pastors but we are called to be witnesses for Christ and if we do our job properly then the pastors can get back to doing their job and things will get back to it’s proper perspective. The only reason that pastors are doing it now is because the average believer is dropping or shirking his responsibility to reach the lost. I wonder if the figures were looked at, and not counting the pastors, how many average believers have lead someone to Christ since they have been a Christian? I am getting back on my soapbox, CDBJ |