God's responsibility

MVP asks...

How is that your responsibility? Thats God's responsibility, if He exists. And he has shunned it.

God has not shunned the responsibility. God has entrusted the task to the body of Christ. God has delegated the task to the church.

we speak as those approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel.
1 Thessalonians 2:3-4 (NIV)

God has given me the responsibility of serving his church by proclaiming his entire message to you.
Colossians 1:25 (NLT)

And the things you have heard me [Paul] say in the presence of many witnesses entrust to reliable men who will also be qualified to teach others.
2 Timothy 2:2 (NIV)

This is God's command. This is his mandate for His church.

God entrusts ordinary people with this weighty responsibility. And this is not a mistake; this is God's sovereign plan.

Then Jesus came to them and said, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. Matthew 28:18

So, yes, I have been commissioned to preach the good news of Jesus.

November 29, 2010 12:36 PM