It’s Sunday! I know teaching, preaching and ministering is not always easy. Here is another short post providing you with the motivation from the Word of God for preachers before you enter your pulpit and teachers before you go in to instruct your class.
Today’s post comes from Philippians 3:7-11=
But whatever things were gain to me, those things I have counted as loss for the sake of Christ. 8 More than that, I count all things to be loss [c]in view of the surpassing value of [d]knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, [e]for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish so that I may gain Christ, 9 and may be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own derived from the Law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which comes from God on the basis of faith, 10 that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and [f]the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death;11 [g]in order that I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.
Here’s a question based upon the verse:
In the midst of serving God have you counted what was loss for Christ’s sake as gain in knowing Christ?
Note how in the context Paul was talking about suffering in his ministry. You get more of the sense of what he went through even in Philippians in which he was jailed for Christ. Of course the book of Acts reveal more. Yet despite all that he went through through he consider that as a means of knowing the suffering of Christ. Ultimately Christ is who He desire and will one day attain the resurrection from the dead and see.
Does knowing Christ motivate you to serve Him? Have you been fueled by the Gospel in your ministry?
Reblogged this on Talmidimblogging.
Thanks for the reblog! How are you doing by the way?
You’re very welcome Pastor Jim and I am okay… Praise God 😎
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Excellent questions!
Paul was called by God. Paul was filled with and led by and taught by the Holy spirit. How does a modern pastor know with certitude that God called him to be a pastor? How does the local church hiring committee know if any of the candidates have been called by God?
judging by the large percentage of pastor drop outs and burn outs and kicked outs, for moral failure,it would appear that all to many called themselves apart from in spite of and possibly in defiance of Gods will?
Pastors hypocritically teach against church hopping then turn around and pulpit hop like some upwardly mobile yuppie. The so called laity cannot hop away from their church pastor but the church pastor can hop away from them. Gee I guess that their god cannot decide where He wants them to serve
I heard one pastor state that being a pastor was not who he was but rather it was (merely) what he did. Yet Paul had no such delusions about his calling. Paul was his calling.
I read in scripture about God calling men to serve Him. I do not remember a passage where God turned around and un-called anyone save perhaps king Saul.
If God called these to be pastors then they have no right to behave like Jonah and run away from that calling irrespective of Gods will. God is not fickle.
“Pastors hypocritically teach against church hopping then turn around and pulpit hop like some upwardly mobile yuppie. “<–T.I Miller I absolutely agree and see the same problem and preach against it and also counsel other pastors on that problem. I agree with your assessment here a hundred ten percent. Just remember not every Pastor sees their present pulpit as a stepping stone to some national ministry or some opportunistic thing like that.