Pastor Iain Campbell has posted an excellent article on Christian instruction and the chief end of man. Here's an excerpt:
To be an effective church in the modern day, one has to be involved in schemes and programmes and mercy ministries of different kinds. To be sure, the people of God are well placed to help those whose lives are broken in this fallen world, and nothing is more tragic if somehow there is a barrier between the message of the Church and the very people Christ came to save.
Yet if we reach out at the expense of dumbing down the message, or think we have done it all when we have helped people out of their personal mess, we are much mistaken. Faith has to feed upon truth; and the reality is that nothing will make Christians stronger in their faith, and more ready to engage in mercy ministries, than to drink in the doctrine of God’s Word. Nothing will teach us our need, or show us God’s provision, or teach us to live, quite like theology. It’s a fatal simplicism to prefer Jesus to theology. There is no knowing the Eternal Word apart from the written Word.
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