_EFFECTIVE SERVICE_ ‘Workers together with Him.’ 2 Corinthians 6:1 All effective Church work has its essence in the spiritual life of the worker. That life is replenished continually by union with the Life and Person of our Lord. I. THE TENDENCY TO OUTWARD ACTIVITY has become a spiritual danger... [ Continue Reading ]
_OPPORTUNITY AND RESPONSIBILITY_ ‘We then, as workers together with Him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.’ 2 Corinthians 6:1 The two most solemn words in our language are, perhaps, the words ‘opportunity’ and ‘responsibility.’ And they mutually connote one another, f... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE ACCEPTABLE TIME_ ‘Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.’ 2 Corinthians 6:2 This repeated word ‘now’ reminds us that the time it embraces is a short time. Whether we interpret it to mean to-day, or yesterday, to-day, and to-morrow, or even extend it to the thr... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE HOLY GHOST_ ‘By the Holy Ghost.’ 2 Corinthians 6:6 The Holy Ghost is the greatest power in the world in the formation of character, in the shaping of history, in the ordering of the universe. To ignore this in education is to put the clock back; to neglect it in morals is retrogressive to th... [ Continue Reading ]
_GOD’S INSTRUMENTS_ ‘Poor, yet making many rich.’ 2 Corinthians 6:10 An instrument is valued for what it accomplishes, and not for its accidental richness in material. A steel pen or quill that will write well is better than a gold one which will not write at all; a poor reed or pipe that gives m... [ Continue Reading ]