Friday, January 16, 2009
Inside the BOOK #2
Some times when you mention change people get upset. Things are changeing around you every day, just stop and remember for a while. The Bible is a book that records chenges from the very begining. Just LOOK and see. there are things that God teaches us that should be ongoing untill He returns for us. Look at Your Town or County or City. the numbers of lost people are growing, now Barna, sez that has reached apx. 70%. We must reach to them, they will not come seeking us. Doesnt the Bible syy for us to go to them. The great commission extends to the world, and that includes where we live. Absolutely NEVER change the word of God. only the way you deliver it. Think of different ways to reach people where they are to get them to where God wants them. What do you think? Marlin Freeman.
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I feel if people knew God's Word better (myself included), we would follow God's will. Tradition for tradition's sake is just as bad as change for change's sake. Instead, we ought to keep traditions, or make changes, so long as they don't violate God's Word, and so long as we feel it is beneficial toward the goal the Bible sets forth for a church. In order to determine these things, for many changes, it may require we study and give MUCH thought before making them. I suppose all I'm saying is some traditions may be good (using ABA Sunday School literature) and yet some changes might be good too (instead of just having people read each section in the Sunday School literature, make our own lessons, or pass out worksheets, outlines with fill in words, using a Sunday School powerpoint presentation.) I'd probably say a high majority of our brethren who I attend school with (at Louisiana Missionary Baptist Institute and Seminary in Minden, LA) feel this way too. Yet other seminaries are stuck to tradition, while others throw away traditions without giving much thought. Can we find a balance?
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