WHAT ARE PASTORS? (2 OF 6)
by Scott Maze
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 3:5-9
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What are Pastors? (2 of 6)
Series: Run Away Bride: A Study of 1 Corinthians
Scott Maze
1 Corinthians 3:5-9
Adoniram Judson was a missionary to Burma (today it is Myanmar). His faithful wife Ann had followed her husband from prison to prison as he was arrested for sharing the Gospel. She had died from spotted fever and cerebral meningitis the year before (April 24, 1827). Her death had affected her husband in a deep way. When learning about his wife, he became a hermit in the jungle and stared at her grace. He struggled believing in God: ''God is to me the Great Unknown. I believe in Him, but I find Him not.'' Yet in 1828, missionary Adoniram Judson came into contact with the Karen people. The Karen people were a race of wild people living in a remote and almost inaccessible jungle. Judson had longed to win just one person from Karen to Christ. He had his opportunity when a Christian sold a Karen slave named Ko Tha Byu one day in a bazaar. The Christian brought Ko, the Karen slave, to Judson. Ko had taken part of approximately thirty murders. He was a hardened criminal with a vicious nature. Patiently, prayerfully, Judson taught Ko. In time, Ko yielded to the transforming power of Christ. He soon became a flaming evangelist among His people. A century later, the Christian Karens have more than 800 churches, splendid high school, hundreds of village schools, and more than 150,000 people who confess Christ.
Today's Scripture
''What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, as the Lord assigned to each. 6 I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. 7 So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth. 8 He who plants and he who waters are one, and each will receive his wages according to his labor. 9 For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's field, God's building'' (1 Corinthians 3:5-9).
Today's Big Idea: A pastor is a man who is sent by God to save people from hell to make t ...
Series: Run Away Bride: A Study of 1 Corinthians
Scott Maze
1 Corinthians 3:5-9
Adoniram Judson was a missionary to Burma (today it is Myanmar). His faithful wife Ann had followed her husband from prison to prison as he was arrested for sharing the Gospel. She had died from spotted fever and cerebral meningitis the year before (April 24, 1827). Her death had affected her husband in a deep way. When learning about his wife, he became a hermit in the jungle and stared at her grace. He struggled believing in God: ''God is to me the Great Unknown. I believe in Him, but I find Him not.'' Yet in 1828, missionary Adoniram Judson came into contact with the Karen people. The Karen people were a race of wild people living in a remote and almost inaccessible jungle. Judson had longed to win just one person from Karen to Christ. He had his opportunity when a Christian sold a Karen slave named Ko Tha Byu one day in a bazaar. The Christian brought Ko, the Karen slave, to Judson. Ko had taken part of approximately thirty murders. He was a hardened criminal with a vicious nature. Patiently, prayerfully, Judson taught Ko. In time, Ko yielded to the transforming power of Christ. He soon became a flaming evangelist among His people. A century later, the Christian Karens have more than 800 churches, splendid high school, hundreds of village schools, and more than 150,000 people who confess Christ.
Today's Scripture
''What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, as the Lord assigned to each. 6 I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. 7 So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth. 8 He who plants and he who waters are one, and each will receive his wages according to his labor. 9 For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's field, God's building'' (1 Corinthians 3:5-9).
Today's Big Idea: A pastor is a man who is sent by God to save people from hell to make t ...
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