My Personal Theology Of Ministry

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shepherding or caring and servant leadership, caring family life and personal life, learning experiences and conclusion.

My Call to Ministry

The call of God is different from one another-Peter was called when he was fishing. Yet as I look back at all the ways in which I have been prepared and equipped for ministry, God's calling in my life is obvious if not undeniable. My journey has not been one without its share of confusions, frustrations, and even doubts. But as I reflect upon my journey and see the ways in which God has been with me -- love, care, protection, providing, passions, relationships and guiding -- I can see God's calling and invitation to me to be for other as God has been for me and to be such in the context of vocational ministry. I believe that God in renewing and redeeming everything. This assurance of God's calling both initiates and sustains my pastoral ministry. The knowledge that God enables those whom he calls gives the pastor great confidence in ...

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the Bible testifies to itself in 2Tim 3:16-17, "All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, ... God may be ...equipped for every good work". Hence we see that God's word central to my ministry.

Rowland Cruncher, "the office of priest, prophet, sage and king" together illustrate the comprehensive nature of pastoral's calling. We the pastors are called to be a prophet (Gal. 1:11) and expounding the scripture as the living word of God. We are called to be a priest who enter the depth of the believers' experiences and to be with people in their pain (Rom. 1:8-10). We are also called to be a sage (Pro 2:1-5). We are ...

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