And there came a writing to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, Thus saith the LORD God of David thy father, Because thou hast not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat thy father, nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah,
It should not surprise us to see that Elijah, a prophet of the northern kingdom of Israel, would have a ministry to the southern kingdom of Judah through the written word. After all, the Word of God, in its entirety, is ministered to us through the written Word.
Elijah’s letter to Jehoram is a judgment against him (he said much the same things to the king of Israel). However, I would like to point out that he extended his ministry through writing.
We have so many forms of media these days.
All of them have some legitimacy for ministry. It is a way to extend ourselves beyond our means. I believe it is relevant and appropriate so long as we do not use it to divert people away from a local church.
People tend toward that, anyway.
Ego might rationalize it as ok, so long as they keep listening to us.
Elijah did in the letter the same thing he did in person. I apply that in this way; a ministry of media ought to encourage people to do precisely what a ministry in the church would do – to be faithful to a local church and to the pastor of it.
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