Ongoing Concern

Anita Delene Manthe
Jul 22, 2017
2 min read

The previous article discussed the importance of doctrine and theology and how our words revealed the truth of what we believe. In continuance, we need to consider our response when the Lord has placed us firmly in an environment where what we repeatedly hear and experience is plain and simply wrong. We should grieve at the poor instruction so many believers receive that keeps them immature, weak and believing that which binds them to error.

With errored teaching how can the Lord truly be glorified in the lives of the poorly taught? This should be our ongoing concern! We are called to make disciples. More so if the Lord has provided a Biblical education to us.

Because the Lord has allowed for us to learn, study, and know His word, we are accountable to Him for the knowledge given us and where He has placed us. Understanding this allows us to consider our circumstances differently. If we know Truth, we should communicate it to others – we are not to hide the clear teaching we have received.

How does the Lord want us to function where He has placed us?
What role does He want us to fulfil, if any?
What plans and strategies should we have in place to wisely consider sharing Truth with others?
What should we be praying for?
Are we ready for the Lord to answer our prayers, are we prepared?

Consider the following verses to establish your responsibility. If need be confess your self-focus, negligence, and sin. Repent, reconstruct your path to honor Him, pray and serve the Lord – do His will, live His will for you!

No one after lighting a lamp covers it with a jar or puts it under a bed, but puts it on a stand, so that those who enter may see the light (Luke 8:16).
Him we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom, that we may present everyone mature in Christ. For this I toil, struggling with all his energy that he powerfully works within me (Colossians 1:28-29).
They received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so (Acts 17:11).
You will recognize them by their fruits (Matthew 7:16).
Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Or do you not realize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you fail to meet the test (2 Corinthians 13:5).
So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart. Have nothing to do with foolish, ignorant controversies; you know that they breed quarrels. And the Lord's servant must not be quarrelsome but kind to everyone, able to teach, patiently enduring evil, correcting his opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth, and they may come to their senses and escape from the snare of the devil, after being captured by him to do his will (2 Timothy 2:22-26).