Churches of Christ -- Sermons; Sermons, American -- 20th century
What practical application shall we make? Simply take your Bible and
follow out this plan, study it for yourself, see that this is what the
Bible teaches, and then identify yourself with the congregation which
does the same. You say, “Maybe I cannot find one that follows the Bible
plan.” I believe you can in this town, but I’ll admit there are some
towns where you can’t. Then what would you do? The answer is very
simple—just start one! That’s one of the easiest things in the world to
do. Study your Bible, follow its simple pattern, and the result will be
a church after the New Testament order. If you can find even one person
who is willing to follow this plan and work it with you, then you’ll
have a congregation which pleases God. Jesus says, “Wherever two or
three are gathered together in my name, there will I be in the midst of
them.”
And, friends, I believe that the most practical and effective missionary
work that we could possibly do would be for all church members who move
away from Nashville and other places where the church is strong, to
faithfully and persistently follow this Bible program wherever they go,
even though they have to meet and worship in their own homes. There are
too many who forsake this plan when they go away to a strange city.
If all who move away from places where the church is strong, would
simply take Christ and the Bible with them and start a congregation
wherever they go, it would be the most far-reaching, the most effective,
the most practical, and the most economical missionary work that could
possibly be conceived! It would not only be all of that, it would also
be scriptural. What more could you expect? That certainly is enough to
recommend it to us all. So, friends, simply take this plan, if you know
of a congregation that’s following it, then identify yourself with it.
If you can’t find one, then start one, with the determination to follow
the Bible; and then you’ll be in the right church. You may forget about
all these 200 different denominations, except to do whatever you can to
lead them out of error into the truth!
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