Crossing the Line of Faith: Help Your Friends Know God in a Style That Fits You

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Here are just a few of his words of wisdom. I'm just traveling through this world. Keep your eyes on eternity! I pick up the Bible in one hand, and I pick up the newspaper in the other.

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And I read almost the same words in the newspaper as I read in the Bible. Only one force is greater—the love of God. Problems have changed, but deep inside man has not changed, and the gospel hasn't changed. I replied that I did not see it that way at all. Suffering is part of the human condition, and it comes to us all.

The key is how we react to it, either turning away from God in anger and bitterness or growing closer to him in trust and confidence.

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The angels are nearer than you think. We all live under grace and do the best we can. It is not surprising to me that some of the great leaders at Bethlehem Baptist Church have been men who are also significant teachers. According to 1 Timothy 3: What is a good teacher? I think a good teacher has at least the following characteristics. Jesus knew the hearts of men John 2: Leaders must know who is fit for what kind of work.

Good leaders have good noses. They can snoop out barnacles in a hurry; that is, people who are forever listening but never learning or changing. They can detect potential when they see it in a beginner. They can hear in a short time the echoes of pride and hypocrisy and worldliness.

The spiritual leader steers a careful course between the dangers of rigid pigeonholing on the one hand and indifference on the other hand. Paul said in Colossians 4: Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person. We must remember that leaders are aiming to change hearts, not just to get jobs done. Therefore, alienating people unnecessarily is self-defeating.

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Tact is especially needed in a leader to help cope with embarrassing or tragic situations. For example, very often when you are leading a group, someone will say something totally irrelevant, which is recognized to be very foolish by everyone in the group. A tactful leader must be able to divert the attention of the group back to the main course of the discussion without heaping scorn upon the individual. Another example, which I recall, comes from my experience at Wheaton College.

I was present at the chapel service where V.


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Raymond Edman had a heart attack in the pulpit and fell over and died. Hudson Armerding, who followed him as president, was sitting behind him when Dr. Edman paused in his lecture, took one step to the side, and fell over. In one of the most beautiful and sensitive demonstrations of tact that I have ever seen, Dr.

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Armerding quickly kneeled beside him as 2, students fell silent. Then he stood, led us in a brief prayer committing Dr. Edman to the Lord, and dismissed the students quietly. Edman died as we walked out. The tact of a leader must demonstrate itself in forthright confrontation. The person who is unwilling to approach a person who needs admonition or rebuke will not be a successful spiritual leader.

His choice of words will be astute rather than clumsy. We must work toward a synthesis of all things. We must probe to see how things fit together. How do war and sports and pornography and birthday celebrations and literature and space travel and disease and enterprise all hang together? How do they relate to God and his purposes?

Leaders must have a theological standpoint that helps give coherence to all things. This will give the leader a stability that keeps him from being knocked off his feet by sudden changes in circumstances or new winds of doctrine. He knows enough about God and his ways that things generally fit into a pattern and make sense, even when they are unpleasant.

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So, the leader does not throw up his hands, but points the way onward to God. According to Joel 2: We must not only be discontent with the present, but also dreaming dreams of what could be in the future. In 2 Kings 6: Leaders can see the power of God overshadowing the problems of the future. This is a rare gift: Most people are experts at seeing all the problems and reasons not to move forward in a venture. Many pastors are ruined by boards who think that they have done their duty when they throw up every obstacle and problem to an idea that he brings.

Hope and solutions are expensive.

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The spirit of venturesomeness is at a premium today. Oh, how we need people who will devote just five minutes a week to dream of what might possibly be. It is tragic when age makes a man jaded instead of increasingly creative. Every new church, every agency, every new ministry, every institution, every endeavor, is the result of someone having a vision and laying hold on it like a snapping turtle. A leader does not like clutter. He likes to know where and when things are for quick access and use. His favorite shape is the straight line, not the circle.

He groans in meetings that do not move from premises to conclusions, but rather go in irrelevant circles. When something must be done, he sees a three-step plan for getting it done and lays it out. He sees the links between a board decision and its implementation. He sees ways to use time to the full and shapes his schedule to maximize his usefulness. He saves himself large blocks of time for his major productive activities. He uses little pieces of time lest they go to waste. For example, what do you do while you are brushing your teeth?

Could you set a magazine on the towel rack and read an article? A leader takes time to plan his days and weeks and months and years. Even though it is God who ultimately directs the steps of the leader, he should plan his path Proverbs A leader is not a jellyfish that gets tossed around by the waves, nor is he an oyster that is immovable. The leader is the dolphin of the sea and can swim against the stream or with the stream as he plans. In 1 Kings If the Lord is God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him.

He will take risks rather than do nothing. Jesus said in Matthew That means that very few people excel in the virtue of perseverance. Very few people keep on and keep on in the same ministry when there is significant difficulty. Vision without perseverance, however, results in fairy tales not fruitful ministry. My dad once told me that the reason he thinks many pastors fail to see revival in their churches is that they leave just before it is about to happen.

The long haul is hard, but it pays. The big tree is felled by many, many little chops.


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Here I am speaking directly to men who are husbands and leaders. Paul said in Ephesians 5: What does it profit a man if he gains a great following and loses his wife? What have we led people to if they see that it leads us to divorce? What we need today are leaders who are great lovers: We need leaders who know that they should take a day alone with their wives every now and then; leaders who do not fall into the habit of deriding and putting their wives down, especially with careless little asides in public; leaders who speak well of their wives in public and complement them spontaneously when they are alone; leaders who touch her tenderly at other times besides when they are in bed.

One of the greatest temptations of a busy leader is to begin to treat his wife as a kind of sex object. It is a tragic thing when a wife becomes a mannequin for masturbation. Learn what her delights are and bring her to the fullest experience of sexual climax. Talk with her and study her desires. Look her in the eye when you talk to her. To ask other readers questions about Crossing the Line of Faith , please sign up.

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