Pastoral Ministry
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Special counsels for the ministry of pastors
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“Your success as a minister depends upon your keeping your own heart. You will receive more strength by spending one hour each day in meditation, and mourning over your failings and heart-corruptions, and pleading for God’s pardoning love, and the assurance of sins forgiven, than you would by spending many hours and days in studying the most able authors, and making yourself acquainted with every objection to our faith, and the most powerful evidences in favor of our faith.” (Page 26)
“Do not preach until you know what Christ is to you—Will my brethren take heed that no glory is given to men? Will they acknowledge that Christ does the work upon the human heart, and not they themselves. Will my ministering brethren plead with God alone in secret prayer for His presence and His power? Dare not to preach another discourse until you know, by your own experience, what Christ is to you. With hearts made holy through faith in the righteousness of Christ, you can preach Christ, you can lift up the risen Saviour before your hearers; with hearts subdued and melted with the love of Jesus you can say, ‘Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.’” (Page 20)
“The more you associate with the Master, the more closely you will resemble Him—The more that the minister of Christ associates with his Master, through contemplation of His life and character, the more closely will he resemble Him, and the better qualified will he be to teach His truths. Every feature in the life of the great Example should be studied with care, and close converse should be held with Him through the prayer of living faith. Thus will the defective human character be transformed into the image of His glorious character. Thus will the teacher of the truth be prepared to lead souls to Christ.” (Page 20)
- Title: Pastoral Ministry
- Author: Ellen Gould White
- Publisher: General Conference Ministerial Association
- Print Publication Date: 1995
- Logos Release Date: 2002
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Ellen White › Writings--Books
- Resource ID: LLS:900.1.2086
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-11T16:54:52Z