📚 CLIMBING THE STAIRCASE
Adding to Your Faith, One Step at a Time
Booklet 2 of 6 • The Higher Steps
By CHUCK TRUSTY
Pastor | Dardanelle Missionary Baptist Church
Patience, godliness, brotherly kindness, charity — and what it costs to reach them.
About This Series
Peter’s eight virtues are not a menu to pick from. They are a staircase, and every step holds the weight of the one above it. This is a study of 2 Peter 1:5–8, with Psalm 107 in the middle of it, asking what happens to a believer who stops climbing — and what happens when he cries out.
The series runs to six short booklets, released one at a time. Each one stands on its own, but they are meant to be read in order — the whole point of the book is that order matters. The full list is here.
One thing said plainly at the start: none of this is about how to be saved, or how to stay saved. A child of God cannot be lost. This is about how near to God a saved man walks while he is here.
CHAPTER 5
Fractions of the Heart
No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. — Matthew 6:24
Back at the chalkboard, after the children had learned to add and subtract and multiply, we came to fractions.
And a fraction is a strange thing when you stop and look at it. Every other operation we had learned up to that point put things together or took things apart in whole pieces. A fraction does something different. A fraction takes one whole thing and slices it.
I have come to believe that is exactly what most of us do with our lives.
This slice belongs to God. But this slice right here — this one is mine.
We divide our loyalty. We fraction our obedience. We ratio our commitment. And we do it so gradually and so respectably that it never once feels like rebellion.
But the Lord Jesus closed the door on it in one sentence, and He did not leave a crack: no man can serve two masters. Notice He did not say it is hard. He did not say most people fail at it. He said it cannot be done. And then He told us what happens when a man tries — he will end up loving one and despising the other, and the frightening part is that he does not get to choose in advance which one wins.
Fractions belong in a math class. They do not work in the heart of a believer.
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Let me show you the four faces of a divided heart, because I think every one of us will recognize at least one of them, and if we are honest we will recognize all four.
The first is divided loyalty, and it looks like two calendars.
A man says he loves the Lord, and I have no doubt he means it. But every time Sunday rolls around he is checking two calendars. On one of them is worship, fellowship, service. On the other one is fishing, the ballgame, an errand, a chance to sleep in. And whichever calendar is more convenient that week is the one that wins.
Now understand — that man is not rejecting God. He would be genuinely offended if you suggested it. He is simply refusing to give God first place. Those are not the same thing, but the results are closer than we think.
The second is partial obedience, and it looks like cleaning house before company comes.
You know how that goes. The living room gets cleaned. The kitchen gets cleaned. The hallway gets cleaned, because they will walk down it. And everything else gets shoved into the back bedroom and the door gets shut.
Part of the work got done. And part of it got hidden.
That is how a good many of us treat God. Lord, You can have this part of my life. Take it, it is yours. But whatever You do, do not open that door.
Samuel said it plainly to a king who had obeyed about eighty percent of what God told him and thought that ought to be enough: Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams (1 Samuel 15:22).
The third is half-hearted commitment, and it looks like an employee who works when the boss walks by.
Every man who has ever had a job has seen this. Some fellows give a hundred percent right up until the supervisor leaves the room, and then the effort quietly drops. They are present. They are technically doing the job. They are just not in it.
And we serve God the same way, if we are not careful. We sing when others are watching. We pray when others are listening. We serve when somebody will notice.
And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men (Colossians 3:23).
The fourth is lukewarm Christianity, and it looks like a cup of coffee left on the counter.
Hot coffee is a fine thing on a cold morning. Cold coffee, believe it or not, can be refreshing in July. But coffee that has been sitting on the counter for two hours is good for absolutely nothing. It is not hot enough to enjoy and not cold enough to refresh. It is just there.
That is a lukewarm believer. Not cold enough to deny Christ. Not hot enough to live like Him. Just there.
And the Lord's response to that condition is one of the most startling sentences in the Bible: So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth (Revelation 3:16).
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Now let me get to the ratios, because a ratio does something a fraction does not do. A fraction slices. A ratio compares.
And spiritually, a ratio is how we justify ourselves.
It is not that bad. Other people do a lot worse. At least I am better than so-and-so. I may not be what I ought to be, but you should have seen me ten years ago.
Every one of those sentences is a comparison, and every one of them is measuring the wrong thing. We are comparing what we think is right to what God actually says is right, and then quietly grading ourselves on a curve.
Ratios make sin look smaller. God says sin is sin.
And what makes this so dangerous is that a man using ratios is not ignoring his sin. He is looking right at it. He has just found a way to be at peace with it, and a man at peace with his sin has stopped climbing.
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I want to show you one more thing about fractions, and this one has stayed with me longer than anything else in this chapter.
In a fraction, there are two numbers. The top number is the one everybody sees first. The bottom number sits underneath, holding it up, doing the supporting.
Now suppose a man puts his own will on top and God's will on the bottom.
Watch what happens over time. The top number keeps growing, because the top number is what he looks at every day. It is what he wants. It is right there in front of him. And the bottom number keeps shrinking, not because he ever decided to shrink it, but because it is underneath, out of sight, quietly holding everything up while nobody thinks about it.
Give that arrangement enough years and God's will down there at the bottom becomes invisible. And a man's own will becomes everything. And here is the terrible part — he does not experience that as rebellion. He experiences it as normal.
Peter has a word for the man in that condition. He that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off (2 Peter 1:9).
Fractions blind us. Not all at once. One quiet slice at a time.
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So what does God want?
He wants the whole number.
Not a slice. Not a percentage. Not a respectable majority with one room kept locked. A whole heart, a whole mind, a whole life, a whole devotion — because only a whole number can climb the staircase.
And let me guard something here before I close, because I do not want anyone reading this chapter with their head down.
None of this is about losing your salvation. You cannot. That was settled by the blood of Jesus Christ and cannot be undone by you or by anybody else. But a man can be married and be a poor husband. He can keep the name and lose all the sweetness of the thing. And a believer can keep a salvation he never earned and could never lose, and still throw away the closeness and the joy and the usefulness that God intended him to have.
Jesus said something about that. Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels (Mark 8:38).
A friend who only talks to you when nobody else is around is not really a friend. And a man who only lives like a Christian when it is convenient is not really living for Jesus.
So let us repent of the fractions. Let us reject the ratios. Let us give Him the whole number and start climbing again, because the next step up the stairs cannot be reached with a divided heart, and it is the step I want to talk about next.
CHAPTER 6
The Long Road
And to temperance patience. — 2 Peter 1:6
The last thing we learned in that math class, after addition and subtraction and multiplication and division and fractions and ratios, was exponents.
And exponents are sneaky, because they do not look like much on paper.
Write down a six, and then a little eight up in the corner. That is all. It takes up less room than a phone number. But work it out and you will find you are looking at nearly two million.
It looked small. It exploded.
That is what sin does. And that is exactly why Peter tells us to add patience.
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I have lived in Arkansas long enough to know that the size of a thing has very little to do with the trouble it can cause.
A tick is about the size of a pinhead, and a tick can put a man in the hospital. A chigger is so small you cannot see him at all, and he will keep you scratching for the better part of a week. Nobody ever looked at a chigger and thought, now there is something that could ruin my summer.
One small compromise. One small act of disobedience. One small seed of rebellion. And the consequences multiply out to something nobody planned on.
Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap (Galatians 6:7). One seed of rebellion produces a field of regret. One little compromise produces a lifetime of consequences. I have watched it happen to people I love, and every one of them would tell you the same thing: I never meant for it to go this far.
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Now here is the question that follows naturally. If sin starts that small, how is a man supposed to see it coming?
James answers that, and his answer is one of the kindest verses in the Bible.
If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him (James 1:5).
Look at what that verse assumes about us. It assumes we lack. It does not scold us for it. And it says God gives liberally and upbraideth not — He does not throw it back in your face, He does not lecture you about how you should have known better. He just gives.
The wisdom James is talking about is the ability to see the true nature of a thing while it still looks harmless. To see where a path comes out while the path still looks like nothing. It is a believer being able to say, this looks small, but I have a pretty good idea where it leads.
If you cannot see the danger in something small — ask God. If you cannot spot the trap buried inside what looks like a tiny compromise — ask God. He gives that kind of sight to men who ask for it.
But James adds a condition in the very next verse, and it is a searching one. But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering (James 1:6).
Meaning this. You cannot ask God to show you the danger while you are secretly hoping to keep the danger. You cannot ask for clarity while you are already leaning toward compromise. A wavering heart cannot see danger. A double minded man cannot see consequences. A divided heart cannot see the trap, because part of him does not want to.
Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird (Proverbs 1:17). A bird that can see the net does not fly into it. That is what wisdom does — it gets the net out where you can see it, before you are in it.
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So what exactly is the difference between temperance and patience? They sound like cousins, and they are, but they are not the same thing.
Temperance says: I will resist temptation today.
Patience says: I will resist it today, and tomorrow, and the day after that, and the day after that.
Temperance is the decision. Patience is the lifestyle. Temperance is the bird that catches the spider. Patience is the bird that keeps catching him every single morning for the rest of your life.
Patience is endurance. Long-term obedience. The long road.
And the Bible ties it directly to what we receive from God: be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises (Hebrews 6:12). Not faith alone. Faith and patience. Faith starts the journey. Patience is what finishes it.
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Now I want to give you a picture of why patience is the step so many of us never reach, and I am going to use a football game, because it makes the point better than anything else I know.
Think about a quarterback.
He plays three beautiful quarters. He protects the ball. He does not force a throw. He builds a lead and the crowd is happy and everything is going his way. And then with five minutes left in the game, he throws an interception that costs them the whole thing.
Now what happened to those three good quarters?
They are still true. They still happened. But they did not save the game.
Turn it around. A man plays sloppy for three quarters. He falls behind. He looks bad and he knows it. And then in the last four minutes he settles down and throws the winning touchdown, and the whole story of that game changes.
Here is why I use it. Yesterday's obedience can be lost. Yesterday's failures can be forgiven. And today is where the game is actually being played.
That is what patience understands and impatience never does. Patience is not a memory of how faithful I was last year. Patience is what I do this afternoon.
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So why do so many believers never get here?
I think it is because we want the results without the road.
We want the blessing without the endurance. We want the reward without the obedience. We want the inheritance without the patience. And we look for some way to get up the staircase in a hurry, and there is not one.
And there is a second reason, which we spent the whole last chapter on. A divided heart cannot endure.
You cannot persevere in a direction you are not fully walking. You cannot stay on the highway if you keep turning off to try a shortcut. A man with two calendars will never build endurance in either one of them, because endurance is nothing but commitment measured over time, and he has not made the commitment yet. He has made an arrangement.
Trying to endure with a divided heart is like trying to run a race with asthma. It is not that you do not want to finish. It is that something inside you keeps pulling you back.
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There is one more reason I love this step, and it has to do with the Lord's Table.
When we take the Supper, Paul tells us we do shew forth the Lord's death till he come. Till He come. That little phrase is a patience word. It stretches the whole thing out over a lifetime and says: keep doing this. Keep remembering. Keep enduring. However long it takes.
And look at what is in your hand while you remember. The unleavened bread of the Passover was pierced, so it could not rise. It was striped by the hot grates it was baked on. It was scorched by the fire. And it was broken by hand and shared among the family from one loaf.
Pierced. Striped. Bruised. Broken.
But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed (Isaiah 53:5).
When Jesus held up that bread and said, "This is my body," the men at that table were looking at something that had already preached the whole gospel to them before He said a word.
Now, here is what that has to do with patience. He endured all of that, on purpose, for people who were not worth it and who would not appreciate it for years. If we are asking where the strength for a long road comes from, it comes from looking at Him. Patience is not a matter of gritting our teeth harder. It is a matter of keeping our eyes on somebody who already walked the longest road there ever was, and never turned back.
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So let me close this step the way I would close it from the pulpit.
Patience is not glamorous. It will not thrill you. It is not emotional, and it will never once give you a rush.
Patience is steady. Patience is consistent. Patience is the believer who keeps walking after the feelings have faded, who keeps climbing after the stairs get steep, who keeps trusting when life has gotten hard and no explanation has come.
Patience is the child of God who says: I will follow Jesus today. And tomorrow. And the next day. And the next.
It is a long road. But everything worth having is at the other end of it.
CHAPTER 7
My Daddy's Footprints
And to patience godliness. — 2 Peter 1:6 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect. — Matthew 5:48
When I was a boy, my dad and I would walk across the pasture together, and I can still see the ground in front of me.
He wore work boots and he had a long stride, and the dirt out there was soft enough to hold a print. And I would stretch my legs out as far as a boy's legs would go, trying to put my foot down exactly inside the mark his foot had made. I could not always reach. Sometimes I had to hop a little to make it. But I remember wanting it, and I remember why.
Dad was my hero. And I wanted to walk exactly where he had walked.
That is the sixth step on the staircase, and I do not believe there is a better picture of it anywhere.
Godliness is stretching out our steps so that our footprints fall inside the footprints of our Father.
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Now notice where Peter puts it. He does not put godliness right after faith, where a lot of us would have put it. He puts it after patience, and there is a reason.
Patience is endurance. Godliness is consistency.
Patience says, "I will obey today, and tomorrow, and the day after that." Godliness says, "I will walk the way my Father walks." And you cannot possibly walk like your Father if you quit every time the ground gets rough. You cannot fall into His footprints if you only obey when it happens to be convenient.
Patience is the long road. Godliness is where that road comes out.
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Let me take you to a passage that has been misused so often that a lot of good people are afraid of it, and I want to take the fear out of it.
The writer of Hebrews says, Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection (Hebrews 6:1).
Now he is not saying the basics do not matter. Of course they matter — they are the foundation, and you never outgrow a foundation. What he is saying is: you already know how to be saved. You already know about baptism. You already know about resurrection, and about judgment to come. So quit laying that same foundation over and over again every week of your life, and build something on it.
I have known believers who have been saved for forty years and have never gotten past the day they were saved. They are still living on milk. Every conversation circles back to the same ground. And the reason it troubles me is not that their testimony is not precious — it is precious — but that God had so much more planned for them, and they never went and got it.
Stop reliving your salvation experience and start climbing. Stop circling the same ground. Start eating meat.
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But somebody will hear the word perfection and their heart will sink, because they know good and well they are not perfect and never will be. So let me show you what the word means, and I will do it by letting the Lord Jesus define it Himself.
In Matthew chapter five, Jesus says some of the hardest things in the New Testament. Turn the other cheek. Give more than is required of you. If a man makes you go a mile, go two. Love your enemies. Bless them that curse you. Do good to them that hate you. Pray for the ones who use you badly.
And then He tells us why: that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven (Matthew 5:45).
Now He is not saying do these things in order to become a child of God. Nobody becomes God's child by going the second mile. He is saying: this is what your Father is like. He sends His rain on the just and on the unjust. He does good to people who have never once thanked Him. So if you belong to Him, walk like Him.
And then comes the verse people are afraid of: Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect (Matthew 5:48).
He is not commanding us to be sinless. Read it in the context He put it in. He is telling us to be complete. Mature. Whole. Consistent. Grown up.
He is saying, "Walk like your Father walks."
That is godliness. And that is what Paul was after too. He said his whole labor was that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus (Colossians 1:28). Notice Paul's goal was not merely to get people saved. It was not merely to get them baptized, or to get them into a church. His goal was to present them mature. Complete. Grown into the likeness of Christ.
There is not a father alive who is satisfied just to have his children born. He wants to see them grow up.
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Now let me give you the picture that has helped my own congregation more than any other on this step, and it involves a teeter-totter.
Put a one dollar bill on one side. On the other side, start stacking pennies.
One penny will not balance it. Ten pennies will not balance it. Fifty pennies will not do it either — you are halfway there and the board has not budged, and that is discouraging if you are the one stacking. But you keep stacking, and at some point the arithmetic finally works, and the board comes level.
Faith is the first handful of pennies. Faith in Jesus is what saves your soul, and I would never say a word to diminish it. But a handful of faith pennies is not enough to bring a whole life into balance with the will of God.
So we add. Virtue pennies — the decision to live right. Knowledge pennies — learning what actually pleases Him. Temperance pennies — refusing what He hates. Patience pennies — doing it again tomorrow.
And godliness is the moment the pennies finally equal the dollar. Godliness is where the board comes level. It is where a man's walk finally begins to match God's order — where he stops living by impulse and starts living by pattern, stops living by preference and starts living by obedience.
Now hear what James says about that, because he is describing this exact thing. Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone (James 2:17). James is not teaching that works save us. He is teaching that faith left all alone never grows into anything. A handful of pennies that never gets added to will sit there on the board forever, and the dollar will never move.
Faith plus obedience is maturity. Faith plus obedience is balance. Faith plus obedience is godliness.
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I want to say one more thing, because I know how a chapter like this can land on a tender conscience.
Godliness is not a feeling. It is not a mood, and it is certainly not a Sunday morning emotion that wears off by Tuesday afternoon. Godliness is the daily decision to keep stretching your steps toward the footprints in front of you, whether you feel anything that morning or not.
And you are not going to reach every one of them. I never did, out in that pasture. My legs were too short and his stride was too long, and there were days when I had to hop a little to make it.
But he never once turned around and told me to quit trying.
That is the picture I want you to carry out of this chapter. Not a boy who matched his father's stride perfectly. A boy who kept stretching.
Stretch out your steps. Climb the staircase. Walk like the Father walks.
CHAPTER 8
Worship Rightly Directed
According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness. — 2 Peter 1:3 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. — John 4:24
We spent the last chapter on what godliness looks like in a man's walk. Now I want to spend one on what it looks like in a church's worship, because the word Peter used means more than most of us have been taught, and I would not be dealing honestly with you if I left it out.
The Greek word is eusebeia — you-SEB-i-a. And the primary meaning of it is not what we usually assume.
Godliness does not mean acting holy. That is what the Pharisees did, and the Lord had some things to say about them.
Godliness does not mean looking spiritual. That is what a ritual does.
Godliness does not mean feeling close to God. That is what an emotion does, and emotions come and go with the weather.
At its heart, eusebeia means worship that is rightly directed. Worship pointed in the right direction — toward God, and not toward ourselves.
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Now to understand how Peter's first readers would have heard that word, you have to know something about the world they lived in.
In the ancient world, worship was always defined by the one being worshipped. Never by the worshipper.
Every god had a required pattern. Every temple had a required ritual. And if a man came in and improvised — brought the wrong fire, the wrong incense, the wrong order — that was not considered creative. That was considered an insult. Mixing the practices of one god with the practices of another was considered impure, a pollution of the whole thing.
That was not a Jewish idea. Greeks and Romans held it too. Everybody in that world understood, without having to be told, that you do not get to invent your own version of somebody else's worship.
So when Peter wrote eusebeia, his readers heard something very specific:
Worship the way God requires — not the way you prefer.
And the Lord Jesus said the same thing in one sentence to a woman at a well: God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth (John 4:24). Both. Not one or the other.
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That word both is the whole issue, and let me show you why with something out of a kitchen.
Suppose you want to make ice. It takes two things. Water and cold.
Now a man can have all the water in the world. He can have a whole barrel of it. He can be absolutely sincere about wanting ice, and he can want it badly, and he can work at it all day long. But if the temperature never drops below thirty-two degrees, he is never going to get one cube of ice out of that barrel. Not one. Not ever. He can get close — he can get it down to thirty-three and feel like he is nearly there — and he will still have nothing but cold water.
Sincerity without truth is water without cold.
And that is a hard thing for us to accept, because we have been raised to believe that if a man means well, that ought to settle it. But the Lord Jesus quoted Isaiah on exactly this point: In vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men (Matthew 15:9). In vain. Not partly effective. Not well-intentioned but slightly off. Vain — empty, accomplishing nothing.
He was not talking about wicked men. He was talking about religious men who had replaced what God said with what men had come up with.
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Let me give you one more picture, because this one is how I finally understood the issue myself.
Take a bucket of white paint. Pure white. Now stir in one drop of black.
What color is it now?
It is not white anymore. You may have to hold it up to the light to see it, and a stranger walking by would still call it white. But it is not. It has been changed, and no amount of insisting will make it what it was.
Worship that is mostly directed toward God, with just a little of our own invention stirred in to make it more attractive or more convenient, is not the worship God gave us. It has been changed. And I want to be careful how I say this next part, but I do not know how to say it and be honest at the same time: I have never been able to find a good reason why it is unacceptable to compromise about salvation or baptism or the Lord's Supper, but perfectly acceptable to compromise about how we worship.
Where did we get the authority to make that exception?
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I want to walk slowly through one passage, because it is the clearest thing in the New Testament on this point, and it startled me the first time I really looked at it.
Paul writes to Corinth: Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you (1 Corinthians 11:2). That word keep does not simply mean practice. It means guard. Preserve. Protect. Do not modify. Do not adjust. Do not improve.
And then a few verses later he says something that ought to stop every one of us cold: When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord's supper (1 Corinthians 11:20).
Read that again. He is not saying they should not take the Supper. He is not saying they were not saved. He is telling a church that was gathering, and eating, and calling it the Lord's Supper — that what they were doing was not the Lord's Supper.
Why not? Because they had changed the pattern.
They had turned it into a common meal. Some were eating early and eating full, and some were even drunk, and Paul says, "Have ye not houses to eat and to drink in?" They had let divisions and cliques sit down at that table with them. They had mixed the sacred and the common together and stirred it up until it was something else.
They did not reject the ordinance. They rearranged it.
And Paul said: that is not it anymore.
That is a sobering thing, and it has shaped how I think about every part of our worship. The Supper belongs to the Lord. It is His. It is defined by Him and patterned by Him. And when a church changes it, at some point it stops being His.
Paul told that same church, Let all things be done decently and in order (1 Corinthians 14:40). Corinth had disorder, confusion, emotionalism, and competition, and every bit of it was sincere. Paul's answer was not that they needed more enthusiasm. It was that they needed God's order.
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Now let me be plain about what I am and am not saying, because a chapter like this can be read with a hard edge that I do not intend.
I am not writing this to judge our sister churches. That is not my place and I have no appetite for it. My responsibility is to one local church in Dardanelle, Arkansas, and to the souls in it, and I will answer for that and not for anybody else's field.
I will also admit freely that I may be wrong about some of this, and that there are good men who would tell me I am too narrow. I have heard it before. I understand it.
But here is where I always come out. I cannot see how it could ever be a mistake to worship the way the Lord Jesus taught His church to worship. Nobody has ever gone wrong doing that. The danger a church faces is very rarely open rebellion — a church that hates God does not survive long enough to be a problem. The danger is innovation. It is good intentions that quietly leave God's pattern behind. It is sincerity that gets separated from truth.
Nobody sets out to drift. We set out to help.
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I will close this one with something small and personal, because it is how the truth of it finally got through to me.
I have a routine in the mornings. I decide when I get up. I decide whether I exercise. I make my coffee a certain way and I carry it to my study and I work on a lesson. It is my routine, and I like it, and if somebody came into my house and started rearranging it — setting an alarm for me, changing my coffee, deciding when I ought to be up — I would not receive it well. Even if they meant nothing but good by it. Even if their way was arguably better. It is my routine.
Now if a plain man in Yell County feels that way about a cup of coffee and an hour of quiet, how do you suppose the Almighty God feels about a church rearranging the worship He designed?
Godliness is worship rightly directed. It is reverence expressed in the practices God actually authorized. It is devotion shown through obedience to His order, and not to ours.
And it is not a burden. It is a kindness. Because a church that keeps to God's pattern never has to wonder whether it is drifting — the pattern itself tells her exactly where she stands.
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