Effective Ministry

steven · Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2008 9:36 am Post subject: Effective Ministry

Effective Ministry: a series Part One

In modern Christendom there are two ministries for every parishioner; there are pastoral/elder ministries, feed-the-hungry-ministries, collect-the-tithe ministries, door-greeter ministries, etc... and there are street-preaching ministries. Though there are copious ministries, in order to be legitimately in the service of Christ they must they share one paradigm: they must be based upon Love.

This love 'agape' is not vague, and there are 8 characteristics which describe it, along with many sub-categories: affection, good will, benevolence, (John 15:13, Romans 13:10, 1John 4:18) brotherly love, especially the love of Christians for other Christians as prompted by their religion, (Matthew 24:12, 1 Co. 13:1-4&8, 1 Co. 14:1, 2 Co. 2:4, Gal. 5:6, Philemon 5,7), of the love of men towards God, (Luke 6:42, John 5:42), of the love of God for men, (Romans 5:8, Romans 8:39), of the love of God for Christ (john 15:10, John 17:26) and of the love of Christ toward men (John 15:9, 2 Co. 5:14, Romans 8:35, Eph. 3:19).

Now this love is not to be mistaken for the love of men for themselves, but the love of God and His Word, nor should we flippantly throw the word 'love' about as if it is some common buzz-phrase, knowing that our Lord's, and our God, blood was shed that we may boast in His abundant Love, not to mention those whom toiled, suffered and died under His banner of love.

Due to length of series, the rest is posted here:

http://www.informationgospel.net/forum/index.php?topic=41.0

- Steven
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Pete · Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2008 11:07 am Post subject:

I gave up after "A series Part One"

steven · Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2008 11:21 am Post subject:

Pete · Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 8:37 am Post subject:

45degreeN · Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 1:09 pm Post subject:

I believe the TOS forbids posts as long as it was, so keep it shorter or look out for the editorial board.
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pastor2022 · Moderator Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 769

Steven, in the future either shorten your posts or break them into different posts. This was way too long and is against forum rules. God bless.
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Nobby · Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 2:46 pm Post subject:

Hi Steven, This post is terribly long. It has a lot of good stuff in it. But people won't read it! You see this is a discussion board. Just suppose every on on the board decided to answered everything thing that you brought up in this one post. It would take a month to read it.

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steven · Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 10:10 pm Post subject:

Fixed.
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