I think the one big question we have to ask
ourselves in church work is this: What is the Lord actually doing
here? How easy it is to get our eyes off Him and see only the activity
of Satan through his servants. We do not wrestle against flesh and
blood, but against the whole range of the forces of darkness at every
level. When God removes the unbelievers from a church and replaces them
with true Christians, then He is at work; and so is Satan! Then He
will start to draw other unbelievers in under the preaching of the Gospel of the Kingdom,
the Gospel of God's sovereign rule and reign over all things.
I am just finishing DMLJ on The Christian
Warfare, and hope to move on to The Christian Soldier very shortly.
What a read, and what ministry to my soul. While there are church
ministers whose decided purpose in life is to oppose the Gospel
ministers amongst them, DMLJ was the very opposite. He was the great
encourager of Gospel preachers regardless of denominational alignment.
He wasn't too concerned about the accuracy of a man's theology so long
as he gave him a sense of the presence of God. Orthodoxy is important
and we should always strive to be as orthodox as we can; but never at
the expense of the Gospel. I am also reading Francis Schaeffer's books,
and what a taste of heaven these are. His ability to dissect what
passes for Christianity, especially within the evangelical world, is
unsurpassed.
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