The church is God’s farm, His cultivated land, and we believers in Christ are God’s fellow workers, working as farmers together with God by an all-fitting life to sow the seed of life into people, water them with the Spirit of life by His healthy words, and labour on the saints to bring forth Christ. […]
being a laboring farmer and an unashamed workman cutting straight the word of truth
The word of God is like a grain of wheat – it dispenses God as life into us to nourish us. Also, the Word of God is like a fire and a hammer to purify us and break down our self, our natural life, our flesh, our lusts, and even our concepts (see Jer. 23:28-29). As laboring farmers, we diligently and patiently minister the Word of God to people for their growth in the divine life. In all our contact with the saints, we should be pure and have only one motive – ministering Christ to them so that they might grow in life in the Lord (1 Tim. 5:1-2). [continue reading online]