Christ\u2019s Command to His Disciples Still Confronts the Church Today<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A HUNGRY WORLD<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Christ\u2019s words point to a hungry world, \u201d \u2026 give ye them to eat.\u201d This is our world, the world of men and women, of boys and girls; the world of Africans, of Asians, of Americans, of every nation and tribe that inhabits the globe. This world is hungry; hungry for words of life and liberty and light; but in it there is no bread available to satisfy the famishing spirits of men.<\/p>\n\n\n\n THE URGENT TASK<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The divine command points out an urgent task, \u201d \u2026 give ye them to eat.\u201d To feed these hungry spirits is the great need of our times. It is not sufficient that we educate the masses, but that we evangelize them. \u201cIf a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if he ask<\/em> a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent?<\/a> Or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion?<\/a>\u201d<\/strong> (Luke 11:11-12). Hungry stomachs need bread, not bones; hungry hearts need God\u2019s Word, not man\u2019s theories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n This command points up a personal responsibility, \u201d \u2026 give ye them to eat.\u201d The church of Christ is composed of individuals; therefore, the church as such will never fulfil her responsibility in the matter of feeding a hungry world until each individual Christian faces his own responsibility in the matter. Upon each believer there devolves this responsibility of getting the Gospel to the ends of the globe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201d \u2026 give ye them to eat.\u201d<\/strong> Unless I deliberately close my eyes, I cannot but see the hungry world. The task is urgent, for \u201cFor the time\u00a0is come<\/em> that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it<\/em>\u00a0first\u00a0begin <\/em>at us, what shall the end be<\/em> of them that obey not the gospel of God?\u201d<\/strong><\/span> (1 Peter 4:7). Am I facing and accepting my responsibility in doing my part in the urgent task of feeding a famishing world?<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Christ\u2019s Command to His Disciples Still Confronts the Church Today A HUNGRY WORLD Christ\u2019s words point to a hungry world, \u201d \u2026 give ye them to eat.\u201d This is our world, the world of men and women, of boys and girls; the world of Africans, of Asians, of Americans, of every nation and tribe that … Continue reading “\u2022\u2022\u2022 GIVE YE THEM TO EAT” (Matthew 14:16)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa5oei-LG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allthecounselofgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allthecounselofgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allthecounselofgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allthecounselofgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allthecounselofgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/allthecounselofgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2957,"href":"https:\/\/allthecounselofgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2956\/revisions\/2957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allthecounselofgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allthecounselofgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allthecounselofgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}