How My Pastoral Ministry Shapes My Pulpit Ministry

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Sermons, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, 163859, Desiring God, John Piper, Preaching, Christianity, Messages, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 26 February 2008

⏱️ 77 minutes

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John Piper | What has driven and shaped John Piper’s ministry over the years? Here are sixteen core convictions.

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0:00.0	The following resource is from desiring God.org.
0:05.0	My theme is how my pastoral ministry shapes my pulpit ministry. That's the topic I was assigned.
0:19.6	It's attention for me to approach this because all my energy flows in another direction, namely how
0:30.4	God and how Christ and how the cross and how faith and how heaven and how hell and how the Bible shapes my pulpit ministry rather than how my pastoral experience shapes my pulpit ministry.
0:50.0	But I was assigned it and so I'm going to make a stab at it. The way I approach it will reveal
0:56.7	where my emphasis falls, however. I frankly feel endangered not by fear that I will be uncontrolled, uninfluenced and unshaped by my context, I feel
1:20.9	danger and that I will fail to be controlled by the Bible.
1:27.0	So all my energies flow towards bringing my life and my pulpit and my family and my energies into conformity to the
1:36.9	word of God and the realities I see there because there are a thousand voices trying to conform me to the world and my
1:47.4	indwelling sin is very eager to agree with those voices and therefore most of my energy is working in another
1:56.4	direction than trying to figure out how my pastoral ministry should shape my pulpit ministry, rather it's how my experience
2:06.6	with the Bible should shape my pastoral ministry and shape my pulpit but
2:17.1	pastoral ministry does shape our pulpit ministry and
2:21.0	should in significant ways. So I'm going to begin with however many I can fit in of
2:30.1	16 points on how... No that's just the first half of the message.
2:37.0	How many of 16 points I can fit into how God and the Bible shape my preaching and then in the second half is
2:47.8	16 points on how my pastoral ministry shapes and I'm seeing I have 67 minutes and 54 seconds left to do that
2:59.6	in so let me pray for help and go at it.
3:05.1	Father in heaven, I pray that you would make me wise
3:11.5	in which of these points I should leave out, if any, and help me not to spend too much time on one that doesn't deserve it and neglect another that does.
3:23.0	Grant that the pace would not be distracting but helpful and I pray that you would make mighty
3:32.0	preachers here that are shaped profoundly, deeply, decisively,
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