PASTORS:
BURDEN FOR PEOPLE

We cannot close our minds to everything that is happening around us. We dare not rest at ease in Zion when the church is so desperately in need of spiritually sensitive men and women who can see her faults and try to call her back to the path of righteousness. The prophets and apostles of Bible times carried in their hearts such crushing burdens for God’s wayward people that they could say, “Tears have been my meat day and night,” and “Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain daughter of my people!” These men were heavy with a true burden.

Psalm 42:3; Jeremiah 9:1; Amos 6:1; Romans 9:1–3; 2 Corinthians 11:23–33

Man: The Dwelling Place of God, 71.