Many times I come across ideas that cause me to stop for a moment and do some real thinking. Many times I take these ideas and change them for at least five (5) reasons:
- to help them fall more in line with Scripture
- to fit my specific situation
- to make more sense to me
- to further develop a good or semi-good idea
- to take them a bit further than they have gone
If you have been around me for even a short time you have come to know that I operate by a few specific axioms. One axiom that governs my thinking is this, "I have never had an original idea, but I know who to take a good idea and make it better."
I don't know where I got the following questions. I don't remember if I got them all at one time, or if I came across them from various sources. Unfortunately I can't give credit where credit is due. If you see your question here then forgive me for not foot-noting you.
Here are seven questions I ask myself all the time. Maybe they can be helpful to you in your field of ministry. I would love to see your answers to these questions. They will help me further my labor in the field of Kelso/Lexington.
- What is the spiritual age of my congregation?
- How do I plan for the maturity of my people
- How do I preach with a view to discipleship?
- How do I really get to know my people?
- How will they be brought to love the gospel
- How will the come to love biblical preaching?
- How will they come to love God more than a "form of godliness?"
4 comments:
Great questions regardless of where they come from! I confess that it would do me good to be a little more "intentional" in looking at things like this. While I try my best to be faithful to the text, I may not always be as mindful of the relevance to our particular setting as I could be. Thanks for the reminders.
Scott - First of all, you are welcome! Thanks for reading and commenting. Second, many of us do our best to be faithful to the text, but I am not sure that is enough (yes the Scripture is sufficient and God is faithful) but I think we all need to be mindful of preaching with intent. Not a personal intent of course, but towards specific goals that actually result in the edification of the saints. I think much preaching/teaching supplies correct information but falls short many times in accomplishing a specific biblical goal.
Great questions to base your thinking. Pleasure to read Gregg.
Yvonne.
Great questions to base your thinking. Pleasure to read Gregg.
Yvonne.
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