Monday Musings – Page 7 – Ordinary Christian Ministries

Disciplined Pastoral Ministry

“Preachers must discipline their lives so that there is no time in the pastoral week when a sermon is not […]

“Of course the preacher is above all others distinguised as a man of prayer. He prays as an ordinary Christian

“Leaders, pastors and elders are responsible to teach, to warn, to rebuke, and to encourage. They are foremen and organizers,

“Let us beware of despising preaching. In every age of the Church, it has been God’s principal instrument for the

“Paul challenged the gods of the city of Ephesus (Acts 19:26), which led to such an alteration in the spending

“A faithful minister will…never allow anything to be credited to him, or his office, which belongs to his divine Master.

“Furthermore, an ultimatum should be used in our message, citing the judgment of God on the unrepentant. This is the

“In its worst form this kind of preaching degenerates into a kind of ‘Home on the Range’ sermon, ‘where never

“Well would it be for the Church of Christ, if it possessed more plain-speaking ministers, like John the Baptist, in

“Oh what a privilege to be made a minister of the things of the ‘happy God.’ I only hope that

“A Christian minister is a person who is “not his own” (1Cor. 6:19); he is the servant of God, and

“As we mature personally, as our families mature, and as our churches mature, we need the doctrine of sin more,