A lady came to counsel with me and told me, with tears in her eyes, “My husband and I have been married for one year, and now he has been told he has just six months to live. Why?”
"Someone once rightly stated, 'The local church is Christ's mirror, reflecting His heartbeat to a lost and dying world.' If we want to examine a church, we must take a careful look at what it actually believes."
Several years after Dr. Hyles had gone to Heaven I attended national pastors conference. At that conference the host pastor was touting to the gathered delegates the large number of new ministries they had started over the past year.
Now I think basically that when a person goes to win souls, he should spend his time winning souls. I had a secretary once who came to work about nine o’clock every morning, then she wanted to spend the first two hours praying.
There are vast multitudes in this enlightened land of ours who are in open rebellion against God. "We will not have this man, Jesus Christ, to reign over us," is the heartless cry that winds its flight from office, shop, store, factory, home, college, and the busy mart of trade. Lots of people are willing, my friends, to accept whatever they want from the Bible.
Are we like Jonah? Are we like the Pharisees? Do we vainly perform the part of a good Christian to keep our position and title looking good from the outside?
The daily schedule should not crowd out the daily discipline and the delighted devotion to the Bible. One can always push out something temporal and lay aside something carnal to allow for more and better time in reading and study of the Bible. The goal should be making time, lots of time, and real time.
In a recent article, we discussed “The Overlooked Danger to Traditional Church Music.” This overlooked danger is a lack of quality pianists and organists.