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Jesus promised that as long as the earth remains His Church will continue. When we survey the Church and how it relates to the world sometimes we have to wonder why he would bother. The Church is not a building, nor is it a structure of government; it is a body of believers. Christians make up the Church, and it is our responsibility to prayerfully think through how the Church can address its...

and settled flock, concerned with the spiritual, qualitative growth of individuals and congregations. The criterion by which he should be judged is not the annual rate of conversions but the progress of his congregation in doctrine, in holiness, in brotherly love and in missionary and evangelistic zeal. The gifts that constitute his calling are not those indispensable to an itinerant, frontier evangelist, but those that will enable him, week after inexorable week, to feed the church over which God
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