Gospel Advocate November 2011

Matthew Morine:

 

Reference your article "Over-Weight Worship" 

 

Nice article. It might be time to change the paradigm under which the church operates. Matthew wrote that Jesus told the disciples to:

  

"Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you."

  

According to a dictionary preaching is to speak, plead or argue in favor of. One can preach about  Jesus to the unsaved. But you have to teach people to observe all that Jesus commanded. According to the same dictionary teach means impart skills or knowledge to; accustom gradually to some action or attitude.

  

Our formal service permits neither. Preaching to the saved is not the best use of a man who wants to preach. A preacher should be out preaching to the unsaved while back at the home front elders should be teaching those being saved. We have neither. We have a keynote speaker. Keynote speakers never have to explain or defend what they say. Keynote speakers are meant to entertain not teach. The current paradigm does not facilitate learning and without learning their is no teaching.

 

Again, nice article.

 

 

Thanks, John Jenkins
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Gatlinburg, TN

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The comment that ended Groucho Marx's TV show:

 

To a woman on his show with many children Groucho commented:" I love my cigar but I take it out of my mouth once in a while".