“Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.”Psalm 12:7
God keeps His words. We help churches keep a faithful record of the preaching of them, so a message given once is not lost.
Then and now
Someone has to keep the record
- Then
A scribe at the prophet's side
“And Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the LORD, which he had spoken unto him, upon a roll of a book.”
Jeremiah 36:4When the king cut up that roll and burned it, they wrote it all again. We still read Jeremiah's preaching today because it was written down.
- Since
Sermons that outlived the preacher
Every generation has had faithful preachers. We can still read sermons preached hundreds of years ago for one reason: someone took the time to write them down.
- Now
Preached once, then gone
Sunday after Sunday, pastors stand up and preach the Word. Much of it is never recorded, and much of what is recorded ends up lost on a hard drive. We no longer need a scribe. A phone in the pulpit can catch every word. What is missing is a place to keep it.
“This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people which shall be created shall praise the LORD.”
That is our work: record the preaching, archive it, and give it a home where it can be found and heard for generations.
See how the archive works