Alternate titles for this one:
It ain't just preachin'
We work more than one day a week!
Moving from Bivin back to Baxter (nasty habit I have of starting and finishing a whole book while half-way through another one!):
In chapter 2 he begins talking about what oversight of the flock means, saying you have to have a small enough flock to actually watch over. This is something I think mega-churches are starting to realize - maybe.
Anyway, this section caught my eye:
"Is not government of great concernment to the good of souls, as well as preaching?... If only preaching be necessary, let us have none but mere preachers: what needs there then such a stir about government? But if discipline, in its place, be necessary too, what is it but enmity to men's salvation to exclude it?... The general that will command an army alone, may as well say, Let it be destroyed for want of command..." (pg 89).
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