LOYALTY & FAITHFULNESS
Topic: Loyalty & Faithfulness! An essential ingredients in today ministry. Text: A true friend is always loyal, and a brother is born to help in time of need. (Proverbs 17:17 TLB) 1. The first key to commitment is a loyalty and faithfulness that go beyond all personal feelings. The dictionary defines loyalty as being "faithful in allegiance to one's government, faithful esp. to a cause or ideal."1 2.Faithfulness is defined as "allegiance to duty or a person, loyalty, complete trust."2 These definitions describe the heart of an armorbearer—someone willing to give of himself for others, someone who is dependable and loyal to his leaders and can be trusted with difficult assignments. 3. The armorbearer's loyalty and faithfulness, of course, are first to God and then to man. The prophet Daniel and the three Hebrew children refused to eat the rich food served to the king when they were held captive in Babylon. Much of the food was totally against the ...