2 Timothy 2:4 "No soldier gets entangled in civilian pursuits, since his aim is to please the one who enlisted him."
Richard Baxter, on the importance of a pastor giving himself wholly to the work of training and teaching of each member of his congregation:
"It will do good to many ministers, who are too apt to be idle, and to mis-pend their time in unnecessary discourse, business, journeys, or recreations. It will let them see that they have no time to spare for such things; and thus, when they are engaged in so much pressing employment of so high a nature, it will be the best cure for all that idleness, and loss of time. Besides, it will cut off that scandal, which usually [attends such idleness]; for people are apt to say, 'Such a minister can spend his time at [sporting events, or games], or [in] vain discourse; and why may not we do so as well as he?' Let us all set diligently to this part of our work, and then see what time we can find to spare to live idly, or in a way of voluptuousness, or worldliness, if we can."
May God grant me, and all involved in ministry, to do the work with all our might!
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