We are the Mens' Ministry from the Golden Harvest Fellowship Int'l (GHFI). We, as the men of God are dedicating ourselves to the Ministry by serving the Lord with all our hearts. We encourage all men to be involved in our ministry. We love to serve in our church as we love to serve our family. We put ourselves to be the father and the groom in the church because we accept our commitments and responsibilities with the love of God in our hearts. We do our commitments to God , to our family and to our community whole heartedly, cheerfully, and faithfully  and we are serving the church because we are serving Jesus Christ, our Lord and our Savior.

God has appointed men as leaders in the home and in the church

After Adam and Eve had sinned, God appointed the husband as leader: "To the woman He said: 'I will greatly multiply your sorrow and your conception; in pain you shall bring forth children; your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you'" (Genesis 3:16).

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The husband is the head of the wife.

"Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body. Therefore, just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything" (Ephesians 5:22-24).

"Wives, submit to your own husbands, as is fitting in the Lord" (Colossians 3:18).

"Likewise you wives, be submissive to your own husbands, that even if some do not obey the word, they, without a word, may be won by the conduct of their wives, when they observe your chaste conduct accompanied by fear" (1 Peter 3:1,2).

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Both the husband and wife provide leadership for the children.

"Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well pleasing to the Lord" (Colossians 3:20). "Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. 'Honor your father and mother,' which is the first commandment with promise: 'that it may be well with you and you may live long on the earth'" (Ephesians 6:1-3).

"And you, fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord" (Ephesians 6:4). Fathers are responsible for bringing up their children in the training and admonition of the Lord. This requires much wisdom and constant attention from birth until the child is grown.

Bringing up children in the training and admonition of the Lord means that their upbringing must be according to the word of God. It also involves teaching children the Scriptures, not only in word, but even more importantly, by example.

Timothy knew the Scriptures from childhood (2 Timothy 3:15). The genuine faith which first dwelt in his grandmother Lois and in his mother Eunice, was also in him (2 Timothy 1:5).

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Men have been appointed by God as leaders in the church.

Jesus, the Head of the church, is a man (1 Timothy 2:5). The twelve Apostles are men. Elders and deacons are men -- since they must be "the husband of one wife" (1 Timothy 3:2,12).

Providing leadership in the church is a grave responsibility. Paul told the elders at Ephesus: "Therefore take heed to yourselves and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God which He purchased with His own blood" (Acts 20:28). An elder must hold "fast the faithful word as he has been taught, that he may be able, by sound doctrine, both to exhort and convict those who contradict" (Titus 1:9). Peter wrote: "The elders who are among you I exhort, I who am a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that will be revealed: Shepherd the flock of God which is among you, serving as overseers, not by constraint but willingly, not for dishonest gain but eagerly; nor as being lords over those entrusted to you, but being examples to the flock; and when the Chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the crown of glory that does not fade away. Likewise you younger people, submit yourselves to your elders. Yes, all of you be submissive to one another, and be clothed with humility, for 'God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble'" (1 Peter 5:1-5).

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MEN'S SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES

Monday @ 7:00PM : Men's Mentoring

SUYNL (Starting Up Your New Life) 

Wednesday @ 5:00PM in GHFI Building

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REFERENCE:

The Scripture quotations in this article are from
The New King James Version. ©1979,1980,1982,

Thomas Nelson Inc., Publishers.
Permission for reference use has been granted.

Published in The Old Paths Archive

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