As a missionary/church consultant, I have been wrestling lately with the quest by many pastors and church leaders who are looking for the next big thing in church programming. This is not new in church history. In fact, it seems we in the church have always sought better machinery to carry out our mission to make disciples.
But isn't it our job to rely on the Holy Ghost (that's olde English for Holy Spirt)? Prayer giant E.M. Bounds (right) said this more than a century ago:
"What the Church needs today is not more machinery or better, not new organizations or more and novel methods, but men whom the Holy Ghost can use--men of prayer, men mighty in prayer. The Holy Ghost does not flow through methods, but through men. He does not come on machinery but on men. He does not anoint plans, but men--men of prayer."
God help me not to point men to fads of the day, but to You and Your power to bring revival.
"...'Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,' says the LORD of hosts." Zechariah 4:6
4 comments:
Now Brian - you are getting dangerously close to the truth - a naughty thing to do in the Baptist bureaucracy! :-)
A tremendous post. Sounds like you've been eaves-dropping on our recent staff meetings. Your post here sounds like one I want to write :)
A tremendous post. Sounds like you've been eaves-dropping on our recent staff meetings. Your post here sounds like one I want to write :)
Brian, your post is on target - pointing us in the right direction. IF better programs and strategic planning could bring revival/renewal to the church in America, we would already have experienced it!
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