Necessary Food

The church is not called to feed the world with a social gospel of bread and butter. Such a gospel of bread and butter can satisfy our body but it cannot satisfy our soul. The bread of this world can satisfy us temporarily but not permanently. That is why the church is called to feed the world not with a social gospel but a spiritual Gospel, not the bread of flesh which lasts for a moment but the Bread of Life which lasts forever. Jesus says, “I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst” (John:6:35And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.
See All...). The Bread of Life refers not only to Jesus Christ Himself who died for our sins and rose again from the dead according to the Scriptures which is the good news of salvation to the world, but also the Holy Scriptures—the words of eternal life (John 6:68). We must tell the world about the (1) Living Word—Jesus Christ,and His (2) Written Word—the Holy Scriptures.

—Dr. Jeffery Khoo (Pastor, Lecturer in systematic theology at Far Eastern Bible School, Singapore).