READ: 2 Thessalonians 3:1-12
“For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies.” – 2 Thessalonians 3:11
After people have been in the church for some years, they seem to know all your sermons. No matter what tricks you use, they are able to see through the message and
identify where it is coming from.
I remember preaching a powerful series in church. People were really blessed. Many commented on how powerful the services had been. Then I received a note from a long- standing church member.
He wrote, “Dear pastor, we were tremendously blessed by your mes- sage tonight.” He continued, “This is exactly what you preached five years ago. You only changed the title.”
He went further and enumerated the messages from where he claimed I had duplicated my current series. Then, as though to reassure me, he added, “We were mightily blessed anyway, so keep on doing the good work.”
You see, it is important that Christians get involved with the work of the ministry, otherwise they become critical busy bodies; analysing and commenting on things that they do not even understand.
“LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me” (Psalm 131:1). We would all do well to pay attention to this Scripture.