Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, won a strategic battle with comparative ease and little loss of men. When asked for the explanation of his victory over the enemy, he said, \u201cThe enemy had seven cooks and one spy, but I had seven spies and one cook.\u201d<\/p>\n
Perhaps the church lacks power because it majors on the minors and minors on the majors.186<\/p>\n
A generation ago, Dr. F. B. Meyer said this about the local church: \u201cIt is urgently needful that the Christian people of our charge should come to understand that they are not a company of invalids, to be wheeled about, or fed by hand, cosseted, nursed, and comforted, the minister being the Head Physician and Nurse; but a garrison in an enemy\u2019s country, every soldier of which should have some post or duty, at which he should be prepared to make any sacrifice rather than quitting.\u201d187<\/p>\n
The hero of Mark Twain\u2019s Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur\u2019s Court<\/i> was wise enough to install dynamite under the foundation of all the munitions plants and factories he had built. He realized that should there be an uprising against his \u201cnew\u201d nineteenth-century ideas, these factories (once so helpful) might be taken over and used against him.<\/p>\n
There is wisdom to this approach for the church. Every new building, and every new program ought to have ample dynamite poured into its foundation so that if in the future these things become obstacles to the mission of the church, they can be removed to clear the ground for greater works.188<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, won a strategic battle with comparative ease and little loss of men. When asked for the explanation of his victory over the enemy, he said, \u201cThe enemy had seven cooks and one spy, but I had seven spies and one cook.\u201d Perhaps the church lacks power because it majors … Continue reading “CHURCH, MISSION OF”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}