A Better Course

John 3:24 KJV

For John was not yet cast into prison.

John will testify that Christ must increase and he must decrease. And yet John kept at his ministry until the day he was cast into prison. The Bible nowhere says he was wrong in this, but it's result was challenging:

• First, John decreased by being jailed and then by being beheaded
• Second, many of John's disciples never fully became Christ's disciples

This group who said they were John's disciples continued at least until Acts 19 when Paul encountered a group of them and led them to salvation.

Any answer other than the one given in the Bible would be speculative at best.

• John continued his ministry
• John was jailed and beheaded and
• Jesus carried on

I however suggest that a better course for us would be to give up any following we have and become ourselves, followers of Christ. It is very possible for a preacher, having all good intentions, to become so popular and influential that their ministry ceases to be about the Lord. It happened to John's own disciples; it happens today.