Am I Called to Ministry? Five Tests

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🗓️ 21 September 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

How do we know if we are able to bear the heavy calling of being the aroma of life to some and the aroma of death to others?

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back and thank you for making the podcast a part of your week.
0:09.1	We started this week on Monday looking at flashy pastors who flaunt their wealth.
0:14.9	What should we make of them?
0:16.8	Their pastor John briefly mentioned a text in 2 Corinthians where Paul says that we are
0:21.5	not like so many peddlers of God's word.
0:26.8	That's verse 17.
0:27.8	It's a memorable phrase.
0:29.6	But that whole section is valuable for anyone called to ministry.
0:32.9	It offers up five tests to help you discern whether you have been called to be a minister
0:38.7	of the gospel.
0:39.7	It's a very high calling.
0:41.6	It's high because ministers are Paul says the aroma of Christ to God among those who
0:49.0	are being saved and among those who are perishing to one a fragrance from death to death
0:55.8	to the other a fragrance from life to life.
0:59.6	That second Corinthians 2 verses 15 and 16.
1:03.4	Gospel ministry is not about becoming a creator.
1:07.8	Gospel ministry is not about making content.
1:11.7	Gospel ministry is telling sinners come with me and live or turn away and die.
1:19.8	The stakes are that high.
1:21.8	Here's pastor John to paint an especially sobering picture of what the ministry represents.
1:29.0	If you knew that tomorrow you were going to go to Nicolette Mall and walk down among
1:36.2	all those people and as you walked some would get behind you and walk with you and be saved
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