A Gospel Minister (Part 2 of 2)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
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🗓️ 18 July 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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What do you look for in a pastor? A gifted speaker? Someone with an impressive theological education? These are reasonable characteristics to consider, but what’s the most important factor you should seek? Find out on Truth For Life with Alistair Begg.
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| 0:00.0 | What should we be looking for when we're looking for a pastor? |
| 0:29.7 | What should we be looking for when we're looking for a pastor? |
| 1:00.7 | Paul is identifying himself very clearly as a minister of the gospel. God laid hold upon me, |
| 1:08.3 | arrested me, brought me to such a deep-seated conviction, and when I shared it with those who knew |
| 1:13.7 | me, although they were at first surprised, they recognized in the context of the local church the |
| 1:19.3 | rightness of what was happening, and therefore that sense of internal call to ministry was ratified by |
| 1:25.7 | the external affirmation and approbation of those who looked on me. And that is what we do in |
| 1:33.2 | ordination. That's why it is a sobering and a solemn thing. Interestingly, last Sunday was the |
| 1:40.6 | 40th anniversary of my own ordination to the Christian ministry. I wore a clerical collar because |
| 1:49.2 | my pastor told me, if you're going to wear a clerical collar ever, which you're going to need to, |
| 1:55.0 | because you look so young, no one will believe you're a minister, you better wear it on Sunday |
| 2:00.7 | morning, because if you don't wear it when you're ordained, you probably never will. It was very good |
| 2:04.7 | advice on his part. And I tell you without word of a lie that when I stood up in that pulpit on that |
| 2:11.0 | Sunday morning, in October of 76, I would have felt no more vulnerable if I had stood there, |
| 2:18.0 | start naked, then when I stood there. And when those guys laid their hands on me and shut me up |
| 2:26.6 | to this task, I knew this is my deal, this is my life. I don't know what it means, I don't know where |
| 2:37.1 | it goes, I don't know what happens next. And I could have dissolved in tears instantly. And we're |
| 2:47.8 | on for my life quickly. What is this amazing thing that God does? Setting a part to the ministry of |
| 2:58.2 | the gospel. Identity, secondly humility, humility. Paul was overwhelmed by the wonder of God's |
| 3:06.7 | dealings with him. To me, he says, I'm the very least of all the saints, and this grace was given. |
| 3:13.1 | Paul, all the way through his writings, continues to marvel that the Son of God loved him and gave |
| 3:19.0 | himself for him. He's humbled by the fact that God saved him, that God called him, that God had given |
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