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TLFisher · 11-11-2012, 10:34 AM

I hear what you're saying ZNP. While I was meeting in the local churches, it became obvious the agenda about the gospel was who is "good material" for the ministry? Meaning bringing the gospel of Jesus to the unsaved is secondary to adding membership to the local churches.
If you spoke the gospel to someone and they ended up meeting somewhere else, yuur time was wasted because it did not issue in positive results for "the ministry". However what is lost sight of is as Paul speaks in 1 Corinthians 3:4-7;

"For when one says, “I am of Paul,” and another, “I am of Apollos,” are you not mere men? What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, even as the Lord gave opportunity to each one. I planted, Apollos watered, but God was causing the growth. So then neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but God who causes the growth."

11-11-2012, 10:34 AM	#156
TLFisher Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Renton, Washington Posts: 3,545	Re: Andy Anderson on the "Overcomers" I hear what you're saying ZNP. While I was meeting in the local churches, it became obvious the agenda about the gospel was who is "good material" for the ministry? Meaning bringing the gospel of Jesus to the unsaved is secondary to adding membership to the local churches. If you spoke the gospel to someone and they ended up meeting somewhere else, yuur time was wasted because it did not issue in positive results for "the ministry". However what is lost sight of is as Paul speaks in 1 Corinthians 3:4-7; "For when one says, “I am of Paul,” and another, “I am of Apollos,” are you not mere men? What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, even as the Lord gave opportunity to each one. I planted, Apollos watered, but God was causing the growth. So then neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but God who causes the growth."