Churches Exist for Ulterior Motives? Part 2 (TMF:783)

Wednesday, November 22, 2017
Peace to Live By: Churches Exist for Ulterior Motives? Part 2 (TMF:783) - Daniel Litton
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       Apparently, even within the church back then, there were those preachers who preached in competition with each other, trying to outdo one another. And then, as Paul noted, there was just those who preached because they felt God’s call to do so, and weren’t really concerned about what others thought of their preaching. That’s the way it is supposed to be with the preacher. The preacher is just supposed to preach the Bible and not worry about what others think, including those who are doing the same thing. But Paul called those who preached out of “envy and rivalry” as doing it for “selfish ambition.” That means, obviously, these preachers were trying to advance themselves and were not that concerned about the kingdom of God—people coming to know Jesus or with Christians being helped in their own lives. As far as these selfish preachers afflicting Paul in his imprisonment, it could have been that they were actually arguing against Paul that he was in prison in the first place because God was not on his side, or some other sort of distorted view.