Somebody Has To Milk The Cows is the written material originally preached in the pulpit of Berean Baptist Church in Fleming Island, Florida, and later edited by Berean Publications. This sermon was preached on October 31, 1991.
In this booklet, Somebody Has To Milk The Cows, Dr. Jack Hyles tells of the Children of Israel coming to a land that …floweth with milk and honey. Here is a whole land that flowed with milk and honey, but somebody had to milk the cows. Somebody had to do the work. This same concept applies in life and in building a great work for God.
Excerpt from Somebody Has To Milk The Cows:
How do you build a great church? By preaching? No, though preaching is important. God knows we need it. By praying? Not aone. Bible teaching? Not alone. You have to "milk the cows." I am talking about the bus drivers, the bus captains, and soloists. I am talking about sweeping the building, dusting the pews, preparing for the Sunday school class, visiting absentees, and about the nitty-gritty, getting down in the trenches; that is what builds a church. You can have the nicest barn, the shiniest buckets, and the prettiest herd of cows you want to have, but somebody has to squeeze the faucet. Somebody has to "milk the cows."
Jack Frasure Hyles was a leading figure in the Independent Baptist movement, having pastored the First Baptist Church of Hammond in Hammond, Indiana, from 1959 until his death. He was also well-known for being an innovator of the church bus ministry that brought thousands of people each week from surrounding towns to Hammond for services.
Jack Hyles built First Baptist up from fewer than a thousand members to a membership of 100,000. In 1993 and again in 1994, it was reported that 20,000 people attended First Baptist every Sunday, making it the most attended Baptist church in the United States. In 2001, at the time of Hyles death, 20,000 people were attending church services and Sunday school each week.
He authored a number of books with instructions on various aspects of the ministry, including building both churches and Sunday schools. He was one of the twentieth century's most influential voices in fundamentalism.
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