OUR GREATEST NEED

OUR GREATEST NEED

It is easier to build a Church, or to fill a church than it is to build a congregation of stable, God-fearing saints.

We can build a church with our hands and a few tools. We can fill a church with our personality and a few tricks of the profession.

As much as we need the buildings and the pews full, this is not the ultimate goal of the Spirit of God. If our goals are fixed on these, we have failed before we get started.

God is interested in the Spiritual health and stability of the people who are called by His Name.

A congregation of stable Saints is never the result of tools or tricks. It can only come about as a result of the Man of God being in right relationship with both God and the people, in the Office which he fills.

THE MINISTRY OF THE PASTOR IS
THE PIVOT POINT.

We might as well face it, Brethren, our people are what we make them.

If we use our personality, we will utterly fail to produce lasting results.

If we borrow sermons from whomever, we face the same failure.

If our program was purchased at the Book and Bible House, we had just as well build with cardboard.

Our greatest need today is men and women of God who have cast aside the desire for prestige and good will, and are willing to be the MOUTHPIECE OF GOD.

We need to get on our knees, and stay there until we have heard the Voice of God for the people, and our hearts set afire with the Anointing of His Spirit.

ANYTHING SHORT OF THIS WILL FAIL.

Brethren, let us fall on our faces before God, and repent of our waywardness and shortcomings in this matter. "Let the Priests, the Ministers of the Lord, weep between the porch and the Altar, and let them say, Spare Thy people, O Lord. Give not Thy Heritage to reproach."

--First printed in THE HERALD OF
TRUTH, Feb. 1992
--Written by Pastor Marion Fretwell