"What is highly valued among men is detestable in God's sight!" Luke 16:15
One of the greatest weaknesses in our modern church, has been the acceptance of quantity rather than quality as the goal after which to strive. Christianity is resting under the blight of degraded values. And it all stems from a too-eager desire to impress — to gain fleeting attention.
This is so foreign to the Scriptures, that we wonder how Bible-loving Christians can be deceived by it. The Word of God ignores size and quantity — and lays all its stress upon faithfulness and quality.
Pastors and churches in our hectic times are harassed by the temptation to seek size at any cost — and to secure by inflation, what they cannot gain by legitimate growth. The mixed multitude cries for quantity and will not forgive a minister who insists upon solid values and permanence. Many a man of God is being subjected to cruel pressure by the ill-taught members of his flock, who scorn his slow methods and demand quick results and a popular following regardless of quality.
To God quality is vastly important and size matters little. When set in opposition to size — quality is everything and size nothing.
One of the greatest weaknesses in our modern church, has been the acceptance of quantity rather than quality as the goal after which to strive. Christianity is resting under the blight of degraded values. And it all stems from a too-eager desire to impress — to gain fleeting attention.
This is so foreign to the Scriptures, that we wonder how Bible-loving Christians can be deceived by it. The Word of God ignores size and quantity — and lays all its stress upon faithfulness and quality.
Pastors and churches in our hectic times are harassed by the temptation to seek size at any cost — and to secure by inflation, what they cannot gain by legitimate growth. The mixed multitude cries for quantity and will not forgive a minister who insists upon solid values and permanence. Many a man of God is being subjected to cruel pressure by the ill-taught members of his flock, who scorn his slow methods and demand quick results and a popular following regardless of quality.
To God quality is vastly important and size matters little. When set in opposition to size — quality is everything and size nothing.
Man's moral fall has clouded his vision, confused his thinking and rendered him subject to delusion. One evidence of this is his all but incurable proneness to confuse values and put size before quality in his appraisal of things. The Christian faith reverses this order, but even Christians tend to judge things by the old Adamic rule: How big? How much? and How many? are the questions oftenest asked by religious persons when trying to evaluate Christian things.
Quality matters. Let's not be led astray by the size of things.
"It is required of stewards that they be found faithful." 1 Corinthians 4:2
"He is a dear brother, a faithful minister and fellow servant in the Lord." Colossians 4:7
"Well done, good and faithful servant!" Matthew 25:23
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