Friday, September 28, 2007

Addicted to the ministry

1Co 16:15 I beseech you, brethren, (ye know the house of Stephanas, that it is the firstfruits of Achaia, and that they have addicted themselves to the ministry of the saints,)

We have addicted ourselves to everything except God's work. Money, drugs, liquor, and sex. All the while the work of God goes undone. Often we find ourselves looking back and saying what happened to the Preachers of old, who knew what it meant to pray and fast all night? May I say they have become consumed with the addictions of this world and not with God's work.... When the Bible tells us about going astray we look to everyone else and point the finger, but we are the one is which that passage is about.

What is an Addict?
Addict=somebody dependent on a drug: somebody who is physiologically or mentally dependent on a drug liable to have a damaging physiological or psychological effect
Encarta ® World English Dictionary © & (P) 1998-2004 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

What are we dependent on today? Drugs? Liquor? Television? Work?
Or is the Ministry of bringing souls to Christ???

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