Wednesday, February 6, 2019

What is a Christian Leader?

"What then is Apollos?  What is Paul?  Servants through whom you believed, as the Lord assigned to each.  I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth.  So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth," (1 Cor 3:5-7).

Who is your favorite Christian author or preacher?  Spurgeon?  Piper?  Chandler?  Bunyan?  Lewis?  MacArthur?  Mohler?  Graham?  Reading good Christian books and listening to good Christian preaching is a rich blessing aided by technology that makes so much accessible via a website or an app.  Is there any danger here?  Only that we begin to import fanaticism into Christianity.  If we could ask Lewis or Bunyan or Spurgeon about whether they would want to be adored by their many fans, guaranteed they would say, "Don't worship me.  I am nothing.  Look to Christ.  He is your Savior.  I am only a man."  As we enjoy good Christian teaching and preaching in an age of accessible information let us do so with a few key truths: