{"title":"At What Cost?","authors":"C. J. Kwakye","doi":"10.1353/pal.2022.0006","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The Bible teaches that Jesus is our Father and the Church our mother (John 14:9; Galatians 4:26). This means that evangelism and consistent church growth ought to be the natural, normal result of a loving and intimate relationship between Jesus and a local congregation. According to Peter, we should expect to be “neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ” (2 Peter 1:8). According to Jesus Himself, we have been chosen and ordained by Him to “go and bear fruit” and that our “fruit should remain” (John 15:16).","PeriodicalId":41105,"journal":{"name":"Palimpsest-A Journal on Women Gender and the Black International","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3000,"publicationDate":"2022-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Palimpsest-A Journal on Women Gender and the Black International","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/pal.2022.0006","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"WOMENS STUDIES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The Bible teaches that Jesus is our Father and the Church our mother (John 14:9; Galatians 4:26). This means that evangelism and consistent church growth ought to be the natural, normal result of a loving and intimate relationship between Jesus and a local congregation. According to Peter, we should expect to be “neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ” (2 Peter 1:8). According to Jesus Himself, we have been chosen and ordained by Him to “go and bear fruit” and that our “fruit should remain” (John 15:16).
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