Record keeping and God’s power are not exclusive. The Bible itself is a report of God’s activity containing covenants, genealogies, and other statistics and specific records of events kept to demonstrate His faithfulness and power.
Record Keeping in the Bible Showing God’s Power at Work
From the first chapters in Genesis, we find God keeping records of His power at work — what He did on day one through day seven of creation and how He looked back at each day’s activities to assess what He had done.
Continuing on in the opening books of the Bible we read reports of God’s power demonstrated on behalf of His people — plagues in Egypt, the parting of the sea, provision of manna from heaven, water from a rock, etc.
And, we also find many chapters with genealogical records, detailed records of the laws, offerings, festivals, construction of the tabernacle and temple, wars, etc.
Into the New Testament we come across genealogical records of Jesus who was born of a virgin. We find records of the family lines of those He made His surrogate parents, tracing back to the lineage of Abraham and David, showing that nothing is impossible with God (Lk. 1:34-37).
Some accounts of miraculous displays of Jesus’ power record numbers such as the small quantity of loaves and fish that fed a multitude of 4000 and later 5000 men plus women and children and how much was left over after all were fed.
Yes, the power of God and record keeping go hand in hand throughout the Bible. Order the Steering the Church Toward God’s Power Leadership Guide for what we can learn about His might in the above mentioned instances as well as how that relates to the way we keep and use records.
All Posts about Records and Reporting:
- Record Keeping & Reporting: Measure Your Objectives
- Record Keeping & Reporting: Keep Pulse on Body
- Record Keeping & Reporting: Facilitate Ministry
- Record Keeping & Reporting: Assess Growth
- Church Record Keeping Resources
- Church Records Management
- Transparency in Church Records Management
- Confidentiality in Church Records Management
- Responsibility in Church Records Management
- We’ve Been Hacked!
- Record Keeping & God’s power?
- Record Keeping Based on Human Wisdom
- Records & Reporting Point Back to God’s Grace?
- Record Keeping & Reporting Kept in Check by God’s Grace
- Records Keeping & Spiritual Gifts
- Record Keeping That’s Not Mundane
- Lay It All Before the Lord
- Meaningful Record Keeping
- Whether Good or Bad, Make Records about the Name of the Lord
- Records and Reports from the Resurrection
Very useful and encouraging teaching and learning materials on God’s power and sovereignty. If God who is eternal, all-knowing, all-powerful and all-present can keep a record of His acts (the Bible is a record of who God is and His deeds), who are we, His servants, not to keep records of our ministry activities!
Indeed, Dickson Bwacha. Who God is and how He works should be the grid through which we determine what we do.