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What Every Church Needs from Her Pastors
Apr. 25, 2025
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I would say to any pastor, make the Bible the primary menu for your people, regular expository preaching. Because what that does is it creates a culture in your people in the church that's a biblical culture rather than the culture that is out there in the world. Because even those of us who are in Africa, yes praise the Lord that the family is still being upheld in that sense. There's still a lot of negative stuff that is in our culture that can only be addressed as there is the regular exposition of the scriptures. Is exposition that's faithful to the context of those passages and going through the Bible, so that what the Holy Spirit had put in the minds of Moses and Samuel and all those prophets across the Old Testament, including the New Testament writers, who becomes the very natural air that your people breathe.

It's the way in which you inoculate them against that which has become so popular around them, because they easily sense the difference as they are exposed to the scriptures and then get out there and then get exposed to the world. And they ultimately finally say, it's not Caesar who's Lord, Jesus is Lord, and this is what his word says. So in that sense, you will find that your people will see the importance of the individual under Christ, the importance of the family under Christ, the importance of the church under Christ, and indeed the importance of even the nation, the society under Christ, the impact of the gospel being through individual response to the scriptures.

Speaker

Conrad Mbewe is the current pastor of Kabwata Reformed Baptist Church in Lusaka, Zambia, Africa. He is widely regarded as the African Spurgeon. KBC is presently overseeing the establishment of ten new Reformed churches in Zambia and Botswana. Conrad is the editor of Reformation Zambia Magazine and writes three columns in two weekly national newspapers. His most recent contribution to a book is found in Dear Timothy: Letters on Pastoral Ministry, published by Founders Press. He is also the principal of the Reformed Baptist Preachers College in Zambia. He blogs at A Letter from Kabwata.

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