What's the Question?

by T. C. Pinckney                                                                                        Vol. XIII, No. 8 Sept/Oct 2000

The April 2000 issue of the CBF's magazine, fellowship!, presents a short article on a pastor who has started several new churches in California. One of them asked him to become pastor. The article continues with this paragraph:

"The question then became, how could he lead his congregation of former Presbyterians, Methodists, Episcopalians, and nearly every other denomination, into a larger group that would reflect what they truly believed?"

Is that really the right question, how to lead this mixed group "into a larger group that would reflect what they truly believed"? Or should he ask how to lead them to understand what God's Word says they should truly believe? If you do not ask the right question, you are not apt to find the right answer.

Note: From the fellowship! article it is not clear whether the question was as posed by the pastor or by the author of the article.