We first must belong to someone and something, before we can really understand it, appreciate it, serve it, or lead it. If we love the concept of the church as taught in the N.T., then we ought to find a local church and show it. Find a body of believers where we can “Plant our flag and die.”
What do I mean?
How do we die? Easy! Commit your heart to your local church and then show it, by serving your brothers and sisters until your knuckles are raw. Serve your church until your heart is broken.
Then serve some more. And keep on serving – because they are family. Because you need them for the fight. Because they need you.
That first quote is by Rick Whitney.
To every toiling, heavy-laden sinner, Jesus says, ‘Come to me and rest’. But there are many toiling, heavy-laden believers, too. For them this same invitation is meant.
Note well the words of Jesus, if you are heavy-laden with your service, and do not mistake it. It is not, ‘Go, labor on,’ as perhaps you imagine. On the contrary, it is stop, turn back, ‘Come to me and rest.’
Never, never did Christ send a heavy laden one to work; never, never did He send a hungry one, a weary one, a sick or sorrowing one, away on any service. For such the Bible only says, ‘Come, come, come.’
The second quote is by Hudson Taylor.
Which one do you think has it right?
