August, 1942
THE K I N G ’ S B U S I N E S S
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W HERE CAN I find some good material that w ill help me to understand the Book of Obadiah?” , This question was put to me a short while ago by a very busy pastor in one of our larger cities. I was, at the time, staying in his home, having been invited to his church to give some Bible lectures. Though he him self was not bringing sermons to his congregations those days, each morn ing of my stay he had gone to his study to work on messages to be used in the futufe. It was upon his return to his home at noon one day that he asked me this question.
study on the following Sunday. At the morning worship period each week, I give the summary of the contents of that particular book, at the same time calling attention to lessons found therein for us. Last Sunday we studied Amos, and now we will study Obadiah the first Sunday after you have com pleted your ministry here.” Immediately I wanted to know something about the results of this effort. Here are some of the things I learned, both from the pastor and the members of the congregation. Many of the'people began from the very first to read the book of the week, and many more had joined this group in
When Paster and Congregation Study, After we had talked for some time about the prophecy of Obadiah and its message for our day, I ventured to ask him why he wanted informa tion on this particular book. Here is his answer: - “ Sometime ago I announced to my congregation that I would preach through the Bible at the Sunday morning services, giving one message on each of the sixty-six books. I also urged the members, in as far as pos sible, to read a book of the Bible each week, all reading the one we would
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