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There is an important connection between your delight in God and your usefulness to the people around you - or between your delight in God and living out your purpose. As you delight in God, you will find delight in serving others. As you find joy in him, you will most joyfully bless others.

From that moment on, I understood that the Lord didn’t save me just to sit in a church pew and listen all my life - but, rather, to serve.
Ivan - Chile

There are unhealthy movements that grow out of a need to show that others are mistaken, and there are healthy movements that grow out of a joyful discovery that powerful and precious realities about God and his ways have been obscured, and need to be recovered for the full fruitfulness and joy of God’s people.

That’s what (expositional) preaching does - it makes people realize that what is being taught comes from the Bible and that the Bible should be our authority for everything we say and everything we believe and everything we do. So, when you preach expositionally to people who do not know how to read, it gives them the desire to learn to read and own a Bible.

The gospel must be preached to this generation, and then passed like a torch to the next generation - and the next - because Christians are not born but are born again by the grace of God.

Jesus shall reign where’er the sun
Does its successive journeys run;
His kingdom spread from shore to shore,
Till moons shall wax and wane no more.

Isaac Watts, “Jesus Shall Reign,” 1719