The Bible’s word for it: small is good.
The below is a transcript of WBC latest video production, which you can watch here: http://signmovies.com/?tab=news&vid=20150208Small
Just the other day, an Iowa television reporter remarked that we are a “very small church in Kansas” and that kind of a remark is a typical part of media stories about WBC.
My initial reaction to such reporting is (to paraphrase the drunk driver talking to the arresting officer) “we’re not so think as you small we are.”
But beyond that, “small” is good, according to the Bible.
Remember that Christ said that when he returns the state of affairs in this earth will be as it was in the days of Noah and Lot. (Luke 17:26-30). We often look at those verses in the context of the prevalence of sodomites in the land. But let’s view that passage with an eye towards this question of the smallness of the number of the Lord’s people.
You can read about Noah’s life and the flood beginning at Genesis Chapter 6. But, to get to the heart of this matter, according to 2 Peter 2:5 only Noah and 7 others were called out by God for salvation from the billions then populating this world. Eight up against billions is “small”, no matter how you look at it.
Now as to Lot, we learn from Genesis Chapter 18 that the Lord could not find so much as 10 righteous persons where Lot lived. And Genesis 19:15-16 shows us that only Lot and his two daughters escaped Sodom’s fiery end. Ten and three are small numbers, wouldn’t you say?
And don’t forget the prophets told us in the last days the pickings would be slim. All the “vineyards shall be wailing” (Amos 5:17) and there shall be a famine of the true “words of the Lord” (Amos 8:11). Indeed, because of “your doings” it’s as though the whole land was desolate, so small and insignificant is the presence of true saints. (Micah 7:13). Habakkuk describes the condition of things this way: “The fig tree shall not blossom, the fields shall yield no food, the flock shall be cut off from the fold and there will be no herd in the stalls.” (Habakkuk 3:17). It’s all “small” all the time.
So to you fence-sitters out there who are regularly influenced by this constant beating of the “WBC is a small and thus an insignificant group” drums get over it already! Instead, you better listen to Zechariah and not despise “the day of small things.” (Zechariah 4:10).
I say again, “small” is good.
Amen!