From today’s Bible reading. Monday, Nov. 16
From today’s reading:
Acts 20:27 (ESV): I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.
This is the apostle Paul testifying to his own faithfulness to the church in Ephesus as he looked back at his ministry among them.
We have here a simple description of the ministry of the local church: teach the whole counsel of God, from beginning to end; from Genesis to Revelation; from garden to garden city; from one tree of life to the other; from creation to new creation; from the new earth to the new heavens and new earth.
The task of the church is to teach it and the task of the congregation is to learn it. That will take work, it may take years, but it is the Word of God that builds the church and the church that builds a culture.
How’s your reading going?
