Public forums

Posted on 2026/01/20 by Guestspeaker

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Communication is never one directional. While it is important to keep the congregation informed about decisions, it is equally important to solicit their feedback. In one church I served, we closed the monthly business meetings sessions with a public comments time. During this agenda item, any member of the church could give a public commendation or air a complaint. I suspect some readers are asking right now, “You did what?” Yes, we gave a time for any appropriate public comments. It never turned ugly.

A few years ago, I served Valencia Hills Community Church, a church going through a difficult time, as their transitional pastor. Their average attendance had plummeted from over a thousand to fewer than four hundred in a period of two years, including many of their staff members and founding pastor. I came in on a six-month contract to help them navigate through this season of high anxiety and uncertainty. One of the things we did in the opening months was open up feedback lines. We hosted several town-hall meetings where I listened to the concerns, hopes, and dreams of the people. Staff members took notes and I circulated a

“Did I hear you right?” questionnaire

during the weekend services where participants could provide a 1–5 scale on the questionnaire statements to enhance the feedback loop.

At first, some on the leadership team asked me not to have the meetings, thinking they could become volatile. However, I felt transparency was especially important because of the anxious environment. Please note: I did not listen and ignore what I heard. I listened, made sure I was hearing them correctly, and then considered their feedback as I led the church through the anxiety back to focusing on their mission.

Disagreement was okay. People did not have to agree with me and I did not have to agree with them. What was important was that we communicated in a respectful way and worked out a strategy for the future.

Communication is essential because it’s how we connect, share, understand, and influence others, forming the foundation for all relationships, learning, problem-solving, and career success by building trust, resolving conflicts, expressing needs, and fostering collaboration in personal, academic, and professional life. Without it, we become isolated; with it, we grow, build communities, and navigate the complexities of daily existence.

Public comments are crucial for citizen input on government rules, providing direct influence, transparency, and data for agencies to understand public concerns, needs, and potential impacts before laws are finalised, while also serving researchers as rich data for analysing public opinion and participation. For a church, it is also a good asset to come to know what people want and if they agree with how the matters are going. They help spot unintended consequences, foster deliberation, and ensure more inclusive policymaking.

For a church community, it is very important to keep the members alive, that enough work is done to communicate frequently and not just without the members making decisions beyond the heads of the believing congregation.

Real-world experiences, research, and community impacts have to be provided. A forum makes it possible for the local members of the ecclesia to advocate for action, but also to register complaints, if necessary, or learn how to get more involved in local aid of the community.

What strikes us when forums are held about the church, that many people have wrong ideas about certain denominations. Unknown is unloved.
If we explain more about the history and development of the church during a forum, plus explain why there are certain churches that distance themselves from the larger standard churches, it becomes clearer to several people what those churches stand for and why.
In this way, a lot of opposition to certain churches can often be removed.

It is always very important that discussions and exchanges of views are held in a respectful manner. Only in this way can satisfactory progress be made.

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Public Communication

Posted on 2026/01/13 by Guestspeaker

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One way to stay in touch is to communicate in public meetings. In the absence of information, people will usually think the worse. While the people may not be entitled to confidential information about leadership discussions, they to have the right to know the criteria and processes leaders are using to make decisions. Most people are willing to wait for information if they have confidence that leadership will communicate decisions when leaders make them.

The neighbour did this well with the staff dismissals. While he was not free to publish the personnel files on each staff member, he did notify the congregation about the severances as soon as they happened. The operational principle is this:

while discussions are confidential, decisions* are not. And leaders should make them public as soon as possible.

Making decisions public, or public participation in decision-making, involves involving citizens in government/organisational choices that affect them, fostering transparency, accountability, and better outcomes through diverse perspectives, local knowledge, and increased buy-in, using methods like public meetings, consultations, and digital platforms, with the goal of more effective, equitable, and trusted results.

A church community does not mean that only the church leader would have the say. Community is built by bringing together and working out ideas. Building a church is a collaborative effort. There must be openness to discuss matters and work out plans together.

Obviously, one must work to have a structure and regularity in the church or ecclesia. To this end, the elders bear the responsibility and will mainly have to make most of the decisions. But in this they will have to fully take into account the entire community of believers in their parish or community.

It is not bad to bring in local expertise, diverse viewpoints, and context, leading to more effective and relevant solutions. The opening to others, listening to different opinions, gives people a sense of ownership and agency over decisions affecting their lives.

Proactively publishing meeting agendas, minutes, data, and justifications for decisions shall give transparency.

We may not forget some key necessities of communication:

Building Relationships & Trust: It allows sharing experiences, building bonds, and fostering empathy, leading to deeper connections and mutual understanding.
Expressing Needs & Ideas: It’s the primary way to convey thoughts, feelings, instructions, and opinions, ensuring needs are met and ideas are understood.
Problem Solving & Conflict Resolution: Clear communication reduces misunderstandings, resolves disputes respectfully, and helps in making better choices. It is very easy for people to misunderstand things. In order to be a smooth cooperative community, it is important that the elders take good care that there are no misunderstandings among the members that can interfere with the proper functioning.
Career Growth & Teamwork: In the workplace, it’s vital for collaboration, leadership, productivity, and career advancement, as employers highly value these skills. For the church, it is a necessity that the whole community as one team goes for the truth.
Cognitive & Academic Growth: If there is good communication, things will usually remain clear and easy to follow. This will bring a friendly peace and confidence among churchgoers. It aids in learning, sharing knowledge, clarifying doubts, and developing cognitive abilities.
Self-Confidence & Influence: Effective communication boosts self-esteem, enables leadership, and empowers individuals to advocate for themselves and influence others.And as you will find in other articles on this platform, leadership is an important fact in building a religious community. The church needs good and decisive leaders, who clearly express the way to and from God without straying into what people prefer among human traditions.
Social & Community Engagement:The elder or leader of the religious community must always be open to discussion and must give everyone the opportunity to give his or her opinion. But the one who leads the ecclesia must set clear lines and always act according to the teachings of Jesus. Even if that would show less popular towards the outside world.
It helps individuals participate in society, understand diverse perspectives, and build supportive communities.

In essence, communication is not just talking; it’s the fundamental skill that enables human interaction, growth, and success in every aspect of life.

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Pastors admitting mistakes

Posted on 2026/01/06 by Guestspeaker

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When pastors make mistakes, they should admit and take responsibility for them. When they do, it helps build healthy relationships between pastors and the people they serve. It can build loyalty, breed confidence, and reassure the people. Besides, it is the right thing to do.

13 He covering his transgression shall not prosper: but he confessing and forsaking, shall be compassionated. (Prov. 28:13).

Jesus never sinned.

21 For him not knowing sin, he made sin for us; that we might be the justice of God in him. (2 Cor. 5:21).

Everyone else has

23 For all have sinned, and failed of the glory of God; (Rom. 3:23).

This fact is one place where applying Jesus’ conflict episodes in the Gospel of Mark to pastoral ministry gets tricky. People accused Jesus of wrongdoing, but he never did anything wrong. If there were twenty-six episodes of conflict in Mark’s Gospel for the perfect Saviour, how many more episodes will sinful pastors have in their ministries? Pastors create their own conflict with their bad decisions and sinful choices.

Opportunities to teach being squandered

Posted on 2026/01/02 by Guestspeaker

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5 For this I left thee in Crete, that thou shouldest rectify things left behind, and set elders in the city, as I directed thee:

6 If any be irreproachable, the husband of one wife, having faithful children, not in accusation of licentiousness, or disorderly.

7 For a bishop must be irreproachable, as steward of God; not self-sufficient, not prone to anger, not intemperate, not a striker, not occupied in sordid gain.

8 But hospitable, a lover of good, of sound mind, just, holy, holding firm;

9 Holding firmly the faithful word according to instruction, that he may be able also to beseech in sound doctrine, and to refute those opposing. (Titus 1:5–9)

Opportunities to Teach Will Be Squandered if Pastors React to Personal Insults

Sometimes conflict gets personal, and if the conflict episodes Mark recorded in his Gospel are typical, they tend to be more personal when they are with friends. Pastors must hold their temper and be self-controlled in all situations (Titus 1:5–9), even when friends engage in personal attacks against them. Jesus ignored the personal attacks and focused on people’s potential to learn. He taught them.

Life, Ministry and conflicts

Posted on 2025/12/28 by Guestspeaker

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Life and Ministry is Better with Friends, Even Though Pastors Will Have Conflict with Them

Having friends in the church can create problems such as giving the appearance of favouritism or creating the possibility for betrayal; yet friends are essential to health, longevity, and spiritual vitality. Life is better with friends. While it is possible to have friends in the community and with pastoral colleagues and neighbours, the church is one of the most likely places where pastors can make friends.

The need to maintain confidentiality, keep professional and personal boundaries, and remain friendly with everyone in the church are some of the unique challenges pastors face if they have close friends in the church. Pastors should be careful in entering into such friendships, insisting their friends respect boundaries and not attempt to use the friendship as a fulcrum point of power. On the other hand, pastors must exercise care not to take advantage of their friends to advance their personal and leadership agendas. Pastors must understand that friends can disagree with them in congregational meetings and still be friends. Friends can oppose the pastor’s ideas and still be friends.

However, even assuming that all concerned are spiritually mature people who handle boundaries well, there will still be conflict. That reality should not dissuade pastors from making friends in the church any more than the inevitability of conflict with family should dissuade pastors from marrying or having children. Life is better with friends.

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The Medium is the message

Posted on 2025/12/23 by Guestspeaker

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Communication theorist, Marshall McLuhan coined the phrase “the medium is the message” to describe the effects communication media have on a message. He contended the way communicators say something is as important as what they are saying. Actually, he argued the medium was more important.

“The content or message of any particular medium has about as much importance as the stenciling on the casing of an atomic bomb.”

In a macro sense, as in the introduction of the Roman alphabet, Gutenberg press, or electronic media into culture, he argued media itself shaped the cultural environment to such an extent that the medium is more important than the words the alphabet formed, the printing press printed, or the electronic media broadcasted.

Each technological innovation rewired how people processed information and what they did with their time. The Roman alphabet, not the words it formed, reshaped thinking from pictures to words, from spatial to linear. It made changes as far as the east is from the west. Philosophers might point to Aristotle and Confucius to highlight the differences between the cultures, McLuhan would indicate that the difference began with the western adoption of the Roman letters, instead of something like the logographic Chinese characters.

The printing press made orality antiquated and flattened time. After the mid-fifteenth century, readers could easily spend their leisure time in isolation interacting with thinkers from another time and place, instead of exchanging their heritage stories in their community, resulting in a less tribalism and more individualism. McLuhan would argue that it was not the words that the press printed that made post mid-fifteenth century generations more individualistic, but that the introduction of the printing press itself caused the transformation.

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The electronic media formed a global village that blurs the lines between here and there. The world came into the living room in McLuhan’s day and into the palm of user’s hands today. While it shrinks the world into a tiny screen, it also expands the users’ world. It creates a cultural fusion where the East and West constantly churn and blend resulting in fewer distinctions, less privacy, and more awareness. McLuhan argued that it was not the words that producers broadcasted that ushered in these changes, but the electronic media itself.

Most of the time, when McLuhan used the phrase “the medium is the message” he was referring to this macro sense of how media shapes its environment and does more to influence people than the words spoken, read, or heard. However, he does make an important distinction between hot and cold mediums. Some communication mediums, such the narrative form, invoke a higher level of participation from the audience. It is a cool medium requiring the use of multiple senses and mental capacities. Other communication mediums are hot, requiring only a single sense.

Important decisions to make

Posted on 2025/12/19 by Marcus Ampe

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We realise that preaching is necessary and that we must follow the instructions of the Nazarene teacher Jesus Christ. But to go out and preach the word of God, it takes a lot of things. It is not that we, like the apostles, can go from house to house to house and from residence to residence and count on a reception there where we should not worry about finding shelter and food.
Today we ourselves must ensure that enough money flows in to fulfil our worldly obligations. That means we have to work to secure our income. In addition, we must be able to make time for preaching. Even after I retired, I continued to do some work that brought in extra money, allowing me to support my preaching work. However, that preaching work, which kept ecclesiae open, did require a large contribution of private resources.

As preachers, we must be careful that not too much of private property or family money goes into the missionary work. When establishing a new church and renting a Beit Kneset or opening a synagogue, my wife requested that no more private funds be put into it.

For one year now, we have tried to open the gathering place in Anderlecht as a study space and meeting hall. For this, monthly rental fees had to be paid. And in a year that amount has risen firmly, while, unfortunately, there was no income against it. This means that this month we had to take drastic measures and still proceed to terminate the lease. Without income, it was impossible to continue our preaching work there. Now we will have to take pleasure in staying in living rooms or house churches, to greet people and tell about the Word of God. It has therefore been decided to give a small fee to those who let us meet in their home. This will require a financial contribution from us, but we want to do that in order for our faith community to exist and hopefully continue to grow. In any case, we still provide our various websites in addition to our ecclesiae, where we hope to get people together and thus continue our missionary work.

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Posted on 2025/12/19 by Marcus Ampe

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We beseffen dat predikingswerk noodzakelijk is en dat wij de opdracht gegeven door de Nazareense leermeester Jezus Christus, moeten opvolgen.

Maar om uit te gaan en het Woord van God te prediken zijn er heel wat zaken nodig. Het is niet dat wij zoals de apostelen van huis tot huis tot huis en van woonplaats tot woonplaats kunnen gaan en daar rekenen op een ontvangst waar we geen zorgen moeten maken om onderdak en eten te vinden.

Vandaag moeten we er zelf in voorzien dat er voldoende geld binnenstroomt om onze wereldse verplichtingen na te komen. Dat maakt dat we moeten werken om ons inkomen te verzekeren. Daarnaast moeten we dan ook tijd vrij kunnen maken om te prediken.

Zelfs nadat ik gepensioneerd werd ben ik nog een werk blijven doen dat wat extra geld binnen bracht, zodat ik geld over had om mijn predikingswerk uit te voeren. Maar dat predikingswerk met het open houden van ecclesiae vroeg wel een grote inbreng van private middelen.

Als predikers moeten we hierbij opletten dat niet een al te grote hap van het privé bezit of familiegelden opgaat in het missioneringswerk. Bij de oprichting van een nieuwe kerk en de huur van een Beit Kneset of opening van een synagoge verzocht mijn echtgenote om niet meer private gelden daar in te stoppen.

Voor één jaar nu hebben we getracht de verzamelplaats in Anderlecht als studieruimte en bijeenkomsthal of ontmoetingsplaats, open te stellen. Hiervoor moesten wel maandelijkse huurgelden betaald worden. En in een jaar is dat bedrag ferm opgelopen, terwijl er spijtig genoeg geen inkomsten tegenover stonden. Dit maakt dat we deze maand drastische maatregelen moesten treffen en toch moesten overgaan om de huurovereenkomst te beëindigen. Zonder inkomend geld was het namelijk onmogelijk ons predikingswerk daar voort te zetten.

Nu zullen we genoegen moeten doen om in huiskamers te blijven mensen te begroeten en over het Woord van God te vertellen. Er is dan ook besloten een kleine vergoeding te geven aan diegenen die ons in hun huis laten vergaderen. Dit zal dan ook nog wel een financiële bijdrage van ons vergen, maar dat willen we er wel voor over hebben om onze geloofsgemeenschap te laten bestaan en hopelijk nog te laten groeien.

In ieder geval voorzien we nog onze verschillende websites naast onze ecclesiae en huiskerken, waar we toch hopen mensen bij elkaar te krijgen en zo ons missioneringswerk voort te zetten.

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Taking time for missionary work

Posted on 2025/12/17 by Marcus Ampe

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As you could read in “Whatever it Takes” it can sometimes go wrong with the attention that certain preachers put in their work towards their family.

It is not always easy to let the preaching work run smoothly. When one is young, one has the concerns to start a family, to ensure an income and then to do the work for God. That work for God is an important task that every Christian should actually take up. Understandably, certain people have to put more weight on the scale by leading a community or ‘their herd’.

The elders face an important task, trying to find a balance between work for their faith community and their families. It becomes even more difficult when missionary work has to be completed, and one has to move further away from home as a preacher. It is then important not to forget the basics with the family or (even worse) to lose the bond with the family.

It is nice if the wife can help ensure that the husband gets enough time to prepare his preaching work, and if he can concentrate on the spiritual work through the exemption from household tasks. In addition, he will, of course, also have to foresee that money will be put in the drawer to give the family shelter and food.

I also remember how I first followed the services as an ordinary believer, but how I later (in my twenties) visited those in need in the social housing blocks in London, after my duties in ballet. This way, I could also contribute to the spread of faith, in addition to becoming more mature in faith by following the services at our church.

Growing further in faith, I was given more responsibilities until I became responsible for the Low Countries and became increasingly involved in spreading the faith. I can only express my gratitude to my wife, who made it possible for me to continue using the time outside my ‘income work’ for spiritual work.

A person who has strong faith in God and His son, prefers to convince others of the need to choose God as well. But that should not be at the expense of others. It is nice if we were able to achieve the goal that we put first with our preaching work. But there we have to be patient and watch out that we always stay on the right path with respect towards the family members and friends.

In the previous article on “Whatever it takes” we could see how even very well-known and important preachers dared to lose the thread. The very popular Billy Graham presumably fell into the trap of fame and fully focused on his sermons that captivated thousands of listeners. But he did not seem to pay enough attention to his own family and his own growing children.

On the other hand, we can see that paid preachers came to serve their master more than God. They did not care to make their missionary work, to placate people by incorporating their own customs or traditions. For example, we can see in the Catholic Church that with their missionary work she has a habit of taking from the traditions and customs of the people to whom they preach what they like and giving a new explanation, supposedly in the light of the teaching of Christ. In many regions, for example, pagan cases “were given a new explanation” and were included in their experience of faith. In doing so, they wanted to make it acceptable to God and Christ Jesus, which, of course ,will never be the case.

As early as the first century of the present era, a problem arose regarding religious customs. Before their conversion „Jews who became Christians had observed the periodic feasts of Jehovah” (the Passover, Pentecost and the Feast of Tabernacles), on which they had, according to their commandments, ’delighted Jehovah.’ (Lev. 23: 2, 40). However, even these celebrations should not be continued according to several Christian communities (Gal. 4: 9-11), however much they were instituted by Jehovah. How much more will Christians not refrain from pagan celebrations!

It is not a bad thing that preachers or missionaries are not dependent on a master who imposes their teaching rules, and who may also deviate far from Biblical teaching. Those who want to mission must therefore make every effort to fully follow and teach that Biblical teaching.

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Te nemen tijd voor missionering

Posted on 2025/12/17 by Marcus Ampe

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Zoals u kon lezen in “Whatever it Takes” kan het soms verkeerd lopen met de aandacht die bepaalde predikers stellen in hun werk tegenover hun familie.

Het is niet altijd eenvoudig om het predikingswerk vlot te laten verlopen. Als men jong is, heeft men de besognes om een gezin te stichten, een inkomen te verzekeren en daarnaast dan het werk voor God te doen. Dat werk voor God is een belangrijke taak die elke Christen eigenlijk zou moeten opnemen. Begrijpelijk is wel dat er bepaalde personen meer gewicht in de schaal moeten leggen door een gemeenschap of ‘hun kudde’ te leiden.

De ouderlingen wacht een gewichtige taak, waarbij ze een evenwicht moeten trachten te vinden tussen het werk voor hun geloofsgemeenschap en hun gezin. Nog moeilijker wordt het als er missioneringswerk moet volbracht worden en men als prediker verder van huis moet gaan. Het komt er dan op aan de basis met het gezin niet te vergeten of (erger nog) de gebondenheid met het gezin en de familie te verliezen.

Doorheen de geschiedenis kan men wel predikers vinden die gesteund werden door hun kerk of congregatie en zo naast dat predikingswerk geen ander werk moesten doen om te overleven. Bij Bijbelstudenten, Bijbelvorsers en o.a. Christadelphians wordt er niemand betaald om mee te helpen aan de opbouw van de geloofsgemeenschap. De prediker moet zelf voorzien in zijn eigen inkomen en in de mogelijkheid te prediken in de eigen gemeenschap of verder weg. Veelal vindt men bij de jongeren dan liefhebbers die vrijwillig naar ergens trekken om daar bijbelstudie te geven en mee te werken aan de opbouw van een geloofsgemeenschap. Dat vrijwilligerswerk is een zeer belangrijk onderdeel van het missioneringswerk.

Ook ik herinner mij nog hoe ik eerst als gewone gelovige de diensten volgde, maar hoe ik op latere leeftijd (als twintiger) na mijn taken in het ballet op bezoek ging bij hulpbehoevenden in de sociale woonblokken in London. Op die wijze kon ik ook bijdragen aan de verspreiding van het geloof, naast het zelf rijper worden in het geloof door het volgen van de diensten in onze kerk.

Verder doorgroeiend in het geloof kreeg ik meer verantwoordelijkheden totdat ik verantwoordelijk werd voor de Lage Landen en mij dan ook alsmaar meer ging toeleggen in het verspreiden van het geloof. Hierbij kan ik slechts mijn dankbaarheid getuigen aan mijn echtgenote die het mogelijk maakte dat ik de tijd buiten mijn ‘inkomenswerk’ ook verder kon gebruiken voor geestelijk werk.

Mooi is het als de echtgenote er mee kan voor zorgen dat manlief voldoende tijd krijgt om zijn predikingswerk voor te bereiden en als hij zich door de ontheffing van huistaken zich kan concentreren op het geestelijk werk. Daarnaast zal hij natuurlijk ook moeten voorzien dat er geld in het laatje komt om het gezin onderdak en eten te geven.

Iemand die sterk geloof in God en Zijn zoon heeft, wil liefst anderen overtuigen van de noodzaak om ook voor God te kiezen. Maar dat mag niet ten koste gaan van anderen. Het is fijn moesten we met ons predikingswerk de goal kunnen bereiken die we voorop stellen. Maar daar moeten we geduldig zijn en uitkijken dat we steeds op een juist pad blijven vol respect naar de familieleden en vrienden toe.

In het vorige artikel over “Wat het ook moge vergen” (Whatever it Takes) konden we zien hoe zelfs zeer grote en belangrijk predikers de draad ook durfden verliezen. De zeer populaire Billy Graham viel vermoedelijk in de val van de roem en legde zich volledig toe op zijn preken waarmee hij duizenden toehoorders wist mee te bekoren. Maar voor zijn eigen gezin en zijn eigen opgroeiende kinderen leek hij toch niet voldoende aandacht te schenken.

Aan de andere kant kunnen we bij betaalde predikers merken dat zij hun broodheer meer kwamen te dienen dan God. Zij gaven of geven er niet om om voor hun missionering te doen slagen, de mensen te paaien met het opnemen van hun eigen gebruiken of tradities. Zo kunnen we bij de Katholieke Kerk zien dat zij met hun missiewerk de gewoonte heeft om van de gebruiken en gewoonten van de mensen tot wie ze prediken, datgene te nemen wat ze graag hebben en daaraan een nieuwe uitleg geven, zogenaamd in het licht van de leer van Christus. Zo werden in vele streken heidense zaken van „een nieuwe uitleg” voorzien en mee opgenomen in hun geloofsbeleving. Daarmee willen ze het voor God en Christus Jezus tot iets aanvaardbaars maken, dat natuurlijk nooit zo zal zijn.

Al in de eerste eeuw van de gewone tijdrekening rees er een probleem aangaande religieuze gewoonten. Joden die christenen werden, hadden vóór hun bekering „de periodieke feesten van Jehovah” in acht genomen (het Pascha, Pinksteren en het Loofhuttenfeest), waarop zij zich, naar hun geboden was, ’voor het aangezicht van Jehovah hadden verheugd’ (Lev. 23:2, 40). Zelfs deze vieringen dienden echter volgens verscheidene Christelijke gemeenschappen niet te worden voortgezet (Gal. 4:9-11), hoezeer ze ook door Jehovah waren ingesteld. Hoeveel te meer zullen christenen zich dan niet van heidense vieringen onthouden!

Het is niet slecht dat predikers of missionarissen niet afhankelijk zijn van een broodheer die hun leerregels oplegt, en die ook wel eens ver kunnen afwijken van de Bijbelse leer. Zij die willen missioneren moeten dan ook alles in het werk stellen om volledig die Bijbelse leer te volgen en onderwijzen.

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