In the last article I said, “Without God and the doers of the Word, the ministry will die.” We do not have a book in the Bible entitled “The Sermons of the Apostles.” What we have is “The Acts of the Apostles.” The history of the first Baptist Church is about what the Apostles did, particularly the ministries of Apostle Peter and Paul. Even Muslims recognize that without the Apostle Paul the gospel of Jesus Christ would not spread throughout the then known world.
Without the doers of the Word in our church, I mean if our members here and abroad will not obey the Bible, then no one will go out soul winning, no one will give tithes and offerings, no one will give to missions, no one will preach and teach the Word. We may be physically present but we’ll be as unprofitable and unproductive as the fig tree which was cursed by the Lord and died an untimely death. We do not want that to happen to us.
We want to be like the Blessed Man of Proverbs chapter one. We want to be like Onesimus, who was before unprofitable but because of Apostle Paul became profitable, to him and to the ministry. We want to be like the house of Stephanus who have “addicted themselves to the ministry.” We want to “adorn the doctrine of God our Savior” by our exemplary behavior. We want that whatever we do, whether we eat or drink, we do everything for the glory of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
This article from Baptist’s Digest 19 (Volume 1), May 18, 2008. All rights reserved.
Bishop Felizardo D. Abanto has written more than 40 articles for BDJ for almost 2 years of its ministry.
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