50 Days of Wisdom
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Wisdom is a skill in living that begins with fearing God, then progresses to guarding your mind, choosing your companions, controlling your body, monitoring your words, pursuing your work, managing your money, and loving your neighbor. Very simple. But that’s it. And when you’ve done that, you’ve learned wisdom. It’s vital to be taught wisdom. For example, as a father, if I fail to teach my son to fear God, the devil will teach him to hate God. If I fail to teach my son to guard his mind, the devil will teach him to have an open mind. If I fail to teach my son to obey his parents, the devil will teach him to rebel and break his parents’ hearts. If I fail to teach my son to select his companions carefully, the devil will choose them for him. If I fail to teach my son to control his body, the devil will gladly teach him to give it completely over to his lusts. If I fail to teach my children to enjoy speech that is honorable to God, the devil will fill their mouths with filth. If I fail to teach my children to pursue their work, the devil will make them lazy. If I fail to teach them to manage their money, the devil will teach them to waste it on riotous living. If I fail to teach them to love their neighbor, the devil will gladly teach them to love only themselves.
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Elements of Church Growth
The first element in the growth of the early church is a transcendent and universal message. The gospel message is always the same throughout the world. The second element in the growth of the early church is a regenerate congregation. It should be obvious to say that the church is an assembly of wheat, not tares. Right? But you need to understand that there’s a lot of tare collecting going on. What do I mean by that? I mean people who purposely are trying to gather non-believers together by giving them something that they want and then calling it a church. That’s not a church. It’s an assembly of non-believers being given what non-believers want. That’s not a church. To call an assembly of non-believers a church is preposterous because the church is made up of believers. Acts 2:47 says, “The Lord adds to the church daily those who are being saved.” If you’re not saved, you’re not part of the church. I was reading this week about one of those contemporary contextualized churches that is designed to make unbelievers happy. And they were talking about how comfortable homosexuals feel in that environment. I don’t think homosexuals would feel comfortable in the true church, in the assembly of the redeemed, until they came to Christ—then they’d be fully embraced and loved. There is a serious defect in a so-called ministry that prides itself on its ability to make unbelievers feel comfortable. An unbeliever should feel alien, outside looking in, and I hope attracted to the beauty of the transformation that that unbeliever sees in the lives of the people who make up the true church. I’m grateful when unbelievers come because I want them to hear the truth and see the church, but they’re not the church. Modern evangelicalism seems to exhaust and wear itself out with every imaginable and unimaginable means to attract and collect non-Christians in a building and then call it a church. The church is an assembly of regenerate believers. And you can see the manifestation of their regeneration in this: they love the Bible, they love sound doctrine, they love fellowship, and they love to celebrate the cross around the Lord’s Table. They love prayer. They love communion of the saints—one heart, soul, and mind, holding everything in one common hand, as it were; and the Lord is adding to the church daily those that are being saved. That’s a church. It’s an assembly of regenerate believers, totally devoted to Christ, joyfully, sacrificially true worshipers gathered for spiritual purposes, and the Lord adds daily those He is saving. That’s a church. This is a taste of heaven. The idea is not to make the church as much like the world as you can, but to make it as much like heaven as you can, and heaven is where God is honored, Christ is exalted, and people are there who love Him and worship Him. That’s a church. It’s really a spiritual crime to invent some kind of thing that makes non-believers feel comfortable and call it a church. In the end, God will hold all church leaders accountable. Repent and believe! GTY.org (90-455) - Marks of Real Church Growth – 90-455
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September 17, 2025
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