Our local church has a vision, a mission statement and much more. (Most likely you church does too.) Do you know your church vision? Does your pastor preach scripture to you and your church?
In a brief look at traditional business plans of local churches I provide the saints (church members) with some food for thought.
Someone tried to share some wisdom with you, perhaps a Proverb or something, and you stop them short. You THINK you understand OR more likely there is NO WAY that you can ever understand. Really, they speak a language you DON”T understand, perhaps Yiddish, or God-forgive, Hebrew.
You know Hebrew, right? (Or maybe not.) And of course you knew prophesy appears in other books of the Bible besides the ‘major’ and ‘minor’ Prophets. Right?
His utterance: This has the sense of a prophetic word, inspired by God. Like Solomon earlier in the book (Proverbs 2:6), Agur understood that his words here came from God.
Many previous proverbs teach that humility is an essential aspect of wisdom. Here, with poetic exaggeration, Agur declared his own limitations when it comes to understanding and wisdom.
“Philosophy had failed him, and revelation was his sole confidence.”
Beloved brother in Christ, dear sister in our Lord — encourage one another. This is the message of the Apostle Paul to the Church. And recall Jesus’ new Commandment to ‘Love one another as I have loved you.
Agape love must be both active and personal in the believer who obeys our Lord Jesus Christ.
