What would you say is your biggest challenge in ministry? The people you work with, the people you preach to, the people who don’t come, the enemy of our souls? I appreciate and concur with Dr Joe Stowell, former president of Moody Bible Institute. His answer is simple, but profound. “My biggest challenge in ministry is me.” Mine too. And perhaps yours?
If we are able, by God’s grace, to get “me” disciplined, in control, responsive to God, etc. then there is the possibility, by God’s grace, of handling everything else too. If we don’t get “me” in control, everything and everyone else is a secondary issue.
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Same here. If the personal pronoun “I” could be substituted with another word that we be great. How about “Christ-like”? Oh, that would be the word christian wouldn’t it?
I could not agree more! I praise God for all his grace towards me!
Tank you for a very good blogg!
Markus
I agree with Stowell’s comment.
It’s tough, though, seeing the way forward with it: How do we become me-disciplined and me-controlled and me-responsive-to-God without becoming me-centred and me-focussed and me-obsessed?
Any thoughts?
Seems to me that this is not really a preacher-specific issue, although perhaps it is a preacher-intensive issue. Biblical spirituality is a lot about fixing the gaze of the soul on the person of Christ, with the affections thereby being shaped to conform to His and life being lived driven by the values and energy of godly affections. Spirituality is inside-out, but as it is a work of the Spirit, our gaze should be out rather than in. Self-control is a fruit of the Spirit. No simplistic answers, but certainly a subject that should be near the top of our list of ponderings in life!