A Divine Call!
One of the reasons I get so passionate about preaching is that I believe it is a divine call. In 2 Cor 4 Paul says that one of the reason why he does not lose heart is because he is convinced that in God's mercy, he had received THIS MINISTRY.
That's why when it gets disst I get upset. I probally don't get as passionate about other ministries but then this is my blog!
I believe I have that same call to be what scripture calls a herald of the gospel. Why me? God's mercy. And what an awesome privilage it is. I take it seriously and because of this divine call cannot, no, dare not stop.
God still does this today. He still calls and gifts men and women to preach.
The only thing better than doing it yourself is to hear those who are less on in years doing it...better than you!
It won't take the next generation thirty years to get to where I am. They will step into a flow and a platform already build by me and others.
My daughter Lucy is a preacher. When I first heard her I thought "I'm never going to preach again!" She was that good. Yes I am biased but that doesn't mean it isn't true.
Thank God we have great budding preachers in CFC. What about you?
posted by Paul Reid at 2:32 PM
3 Comments:
I agree with you. I'm not convinced that fancy lights and boppy music will change anyones life.... Sure it may help them think that the church is not a boring plave to be but if people do not hear the word of God preached in church they are not going to hear it anywhere!
CFC does have good preachers - why though Paul do you not give some of the younger preachers more of a go? Especially on Sunday morning or do we have to go to the evening service to hear them? C'mon - lets see that happening
7:23 PM
Maybe we have made something out of preaching that is separate from Christ Himself.
Sometimes it seems that just like with Apostles, Prophets, Evangelists, Pastors and Teachers we have made preaching more of what “I do” rather than what “I am” in Him and what He is, in and through me. More of a position and profession or something apart from an increase of His life. He is the Apostle, He is the Prophet, etc. and just like those ministries/manifestations of His life, the foolishness of preaching is and will be necessary until we all come to Eph 4:10-13….He who ascended far above all the heavens, so that He might fill all things.) 11 And He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers, 12 for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ; 13 until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ. (and we all aint yet)
Gal 1:15-1615 But when God, who had set me apart even from my mother's womb and called me through His grace, was pleased 16 to reveal His Son In me so that I might preach Him
Christ revealed in,in,in,in, Paul caused him to become the message as he preached HIM !
I do not blame people for not wanting to hear preaching if it is just another religious thing we do.
What makes me a Christian? Is it my religious belief, appearance, and speech? Or is it the presence of Christ. What makes a Church? Is it a building with a steeple or the presence of Christ Himself thus making it the Body of Christ.
Just like a marriage. It started with a certificate and a wedding but it is not until two became one and there is a consistent, continual, eternal, ongoing relationship do we have a marriage. Sometimes it seems like we point (preach) people to our marriage certificate and tell them that is a marriage or Christianity. We preach stuff more than we preach Christ as our life NOW! Its like preaching on love with out reconciling them to the one who is love. At best you have a human improvement course that some will call good preaching.
Catch on fire and people will come and watch you burn. Preach! Even if requires standing behind a pulpit sometimes.
Sorry about the grammar. I love the Lord but could use a little more education.
Jim
1:31 AM
when a church leadership designs a way to keep the prophets locked up in caves, and keeps its focus facing inward and not outward, to build 'the church' not Christ's Church, when you see prayer groups shut down because they dont line up with the leaders veiwpoint, and you see mature christians getting castrated and wander off into the wilderness with no particular place to go, WHAT SHOULD I DO? i cannot leave to go to anyother church, this is the church God brought me to and is my home, but my self included, so many of us have been wounded and locked up but acting in love can find no way to turn things around. we pray and seek GOD'S WILL, but at our homes not in church as this is no longer allowed. i guess what i am saying.... please be aware of what is happening and please pray for us that see these things to stay strong, stay standing, stay unified, stay seeking God's will, & stay praying for our leaders to wake up to the truth and start looking out to our city and not their worship team (where there is sin) and making the building looking great. i can go on and on. thankyou, we will get there in Jesus Christ's name, so be it!
10:05 AM
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