How the ROWDY week in D.C. shows the importance of discipleship Bible studies!
I have been praying and thinking about this past rowdy week in Washington, D.C. and what keeps coming to mind is just how much our national leaders need what CapMin is all about!
Who cannot help but notice all the insults flying around between President Donald Trump, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senator Mitt Romney — each one judging in some way the other’s lack of spiritual maturity.
All that continual, nationally mediated back-and-forth about spirituality (or better, the lack thereof) is unusual. National media doesn’t often camp out on matters of faith and religion in the lives of our leaders for days on end.
Combine that with the most every year exegetically-contentless National Prayer Breakfast Thursday morning (as if unity comes through all the religions of the world getting together to “pray” — versus unity coming through saving faith in Jesus Christ [cf. Ephesians 4:1-6; John 1:12; Acts 4:12; John 3:16]).
Those two things this past week, combined with the other “selfie-driven ministries” and/or numerous “Christian policy-driven organizations,” all of which really don’t do the disciplined work, the blocking and tackling work, of week-in and week-out teaching the Word of God to Members, I am reminded once again of the enormously informative, directional passage of Romans 10:17:
“So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the Word of Christ.”
Is it not a lack of faith — better, a lack of spiritual maturity — that is on display here nationwide? Is it not the underlying common denominator in the events of this past week? Yet this simple passage of Scripture serves to inform us as to what brings about more faith, increasing spiritual maturity!
If increasing the faith of, the spiritual maturity of elected leaders in D.C. and elected leaders in capitals around the world (cf. Matthew 28:19-20; Acts 9:15) comes through teaching the Word of God — and Romans 10:17 informs us that it does — then what CapMin is all about is most ESSENTIAL, that is, if we are ever going to see outcomes that differ from those above….
All the above serves to seemingly illustrate the body of Christ’s lack of grasp of Romans 10:17!
Accordingly, this week actually serves to buoy my heart: What we are singularly about at CapMin is hard work; what we do is not in the limelight, but it is what eventually leads to spiritual maturity in the lives of our leaders.
Hosea 4:6a serves as a good reminder for us CapMin Ministry Leaders:
“My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being My priest.”
May this week serve as a vivid illustration and reminder for us to keep at what we do.
Ralph Drollinger
President & Founder of Capitol Ministries