The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach (Acts 1:1)
What We Do and Teach
Luke in his gospel gave us the account of what Jesus Christ did and taught and no one will ever need to nurse a shade of doubt that His actions matched His teachings. This must have been parts of the things that singled Him out from the religious teachers and hypocritical leaders of His time. What we know or teach others can be significantly different from what we do. Most times, it is not a wishful thinking or efforts without discretion that will bridge the gap to achieve a matching, just as those of Jesus matched. A major challenge of the Church has always revolved around those who will mount its pulpits with microphone to say something and step down from there to do exactly the opposite.
I have reasoned on several occasions that if only those who are pastors, catechists, elders, Sunday school teachers and fellowship leaders in all the Christian assemblies will do just what they teach others, we will have a prelude to true revival. This is what James must have sought to address when he stated that it is not the teacher or the passive hearers that many church attendants have become in our days that will be justified (James 1:22-25), but the doers. This is a poke to the conscience of those who will sow the seed of the word with their lips on Sunday morning and spend the rest of the week, perhaps in the glare of the same audience, to uproot it.
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