Proclaimer Blog
Here we come, Wales
Dick and I are off to Newport tomorrow to work with a small group of pastors in South Wales. We love doing things like this, even though it means crossing the border (only joking!). In fact, it's under two hours on the train from London.
I'm the lead out man with Ezekiel 1, and then Dick is leading two sessions on 2 Timothy. Dick's teaching on 2 Timothy includes this assessment of the reasons why Timothy and his ministry might go astray:
- satanic deception (2 Tim 2.26)
- widespread moral breakdown (2 Tim 3.1-5)
- poor Bible handling (2 Tim 2.15)
- sinfulness (2 Tim 2.19)
Isn't point 3 arresting. We all know that we must present ourselves as "one approved" but it is not just for our own sake. God forgive that we should ever think of ministry in this way. This injunction is not just so that I would do my best, like my dad might have said to me before I went into an exam. No, it is for the sake of the church, for the sake of God's people, that we must carry on working hard at Bible ministry.