What is it like to be used by the Lord?
Our pastor has been telling us in the church that each of us has gifts that the Lord can use. Not all of us are teachers, or preachers, or pastors, or some other kind of "up-front" leader; but we each have at least one gift that is given to benefit the Body of Christ. He said this past Sunday that even those who clean the building are exercising a gift that benefits the Body.
The Lord has invested heavily in my life for the gift of teaching. However, even knowing that, there are times after I teach that I feel like I completely missed the Lord's direction in the moment. There are other times when I feel as if I was standing in the Throne Room saying nothing but what the Father was saying. Quite often, either one of those feelings gets contradicted by the comments I receive or don't receive after the time of ministry. (I guess maybe my feelings are deceitful.) How long before I learn to do my best, to be sensitive to the guidance of the Holy Spirit, and to leave the results to the Lord?!?
What is your gift?
How do you use your gift?
How do you feel when you have obviously been used by the Lord to be a blessing to someone else?
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Monday, March 31, 2008
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
The Purpose of Teaching
Why Do We Teach?
We proclaim him by instructing and teaching all people with all wisdom so that we may present every person mature in Christ. Colossians 1:28-29
It should be the goal of every preacher/teacher/discipler to teach those they are responsible for with wisdom and grace in order to help their charge(s) grow in the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ.
If what you teach is not reproducible, then what does it serve? (2 Tim. 2:2)
If it does not result in a changed or changing life, what good is it?
To just grab a handful of seed without knowing where it comes from or where it is to go, is, at best, an exercise in futility. It will not necessarily do the hearers any good.
Let us, as teachers, make it our ambition to present every person fully mature, ie, perfect, in the Lord Jesus.
http://www.practicalbibleteaching.com/
We proclaim him by instructing and teaching all people with all wisdom so that we may present every person mature in Christ. Colossians 1:28-29
It should be the goal of every preacher/teacher/discipler to teach those they are responsible for with wisdom and grace in order to help their charge(s) grow in the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ.
If what you teach is not reproducible, then what does it serve? (2 Tim. 2:2)
If it does not result in a changed or changing life, what good is it?
To just grab a handful of seed without knowing where it comes from or where it is to go, is, at best, an exercise in futility. It will not necessarily do the hearers any good.
Let us, as teachers, make it our ambition to present every person fully mature, ie, perfect, in the Lord Jesus.
http://www.practicalbibleteaching.com/
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