topical_call_to_ministry
Differences
This shows you the differences between two versions of the page.
Both sides previous revisionPrevious revisionNext revision | Previous revision | ||
topical_call_to_ministry [2020/04/25 12:16] – [It's About Teleology] gregkedro | topical_call_to_ministry [2020/04/25 13:03] (current) – [References] gregkedro | ||
---|---|---|---|
Line 48: | Line 48: | ||
However, Dr. Ruckman did say in that same context that this " | However, Dr. Ruckman did say in that same context that this " | ||
- | - Study and search every branch of knowledge, | + | - Study and search every branch of knowledge, |
- Proclaim those truths (or that truth) any way that he can as long as he lives. | - Proclaim those truths (or that truth) any way that he can as long as he lives. | ||
**Quote:** "He is to be obsessed with learning and teaching" | **Quote:** "He is to be obsessed with learning and teaching" | ||
+ | * Even thought I disagree with the notion of an extra-biblical, | ||
---- | ---- | ||
Line 198: | Line 199: | ||
**Teleology** is the study (Greek //logos//) of the end purpose (Greek: //telos//) of a thing. | **Teleology** is the study (Greek //logos//) of the end purpose (Greek: //telos//) of a thing. | ||
- | * If you look at a hammer, you can understand what that hammer was designed to do (what it's purpose is) by studying what it's designed to do. You can explain the hammer (give a reason for its existence) by looking at what it is designed to do (its end or purpose. | + | * If you look at a hammer, you can understand what that hammer was designed to do (what it's purpose is) by studying what it's designed to do. You can explain the hammer (give a reason for its existence) by looking at what it is designed to do (its end or purpose). |
* A hammer drives nails, not because God called the hammer to the work of driving nails. A hammer drives nails because it was designed to drive nails; we made the hammer for this end, for this purpose. | * A hammer drives nails, not because God called the hammer to the work of driving nails. A hammer drives nails because it was designed to drive nails; we made the hammer for this end, for this purpose. | ||
| | ||
Line 205: | Line 206: | ||
* This is a question of teleology: "What has God designed me to do?" | * This is a question of teleology: "What has God designed me to do?" | ||
| | ||
- | Instead of all this " | + | Instead of all this " |
* God's " | * God's " | ||
* If you're a hammer, drive nails. If you're not... then what kind of [[https:// | * If you're a hammer, drive nails. If you're not... then what kind of [[https:// | ||
| | ||
- | God has made each and every one of us in Christ "unto good works" | + | Ephesians 2.10 says God has made each and every one of us in Christ "unto good works" |
* That means we are made (created in Christ, divinely designed) for the works God wants us to do. | * That means we are made (created in Christ, divinely designed) for the works God wants us to do. | ||
- | * That means the works God wants us to do are divinely ordained for us to do. | + | * That means the works God wants us to do are divinely ordained for us as individuals. |
* It's a perfect fit: we are designed for the works and the works are ordained for us. | * It's a perfect fit: we are designed for the works and the works are ordained for us. | ||
* The Christian who does the works he was designed to do will do those works as naturally as a hammer drives nails. | * The Christian who does the works he was designed to do will do those works as naturally as a hammer drives nails. | ||
* But the Christian who tries to do works for which God did not design him... will be like the guy who tries to drive nails with screwdriver. He might get one or two in... but he won't last long before he quits. | * But the Christian who tries to do works for which God did not design him... will be like the guy who tries to drive nails with screwdriver. He might get one or two in... but he won't last long before he quits. | ||
| | ||
- | It's about teleology (what is your divine design?), not about " | + | It's about teleology (what is your divine design?), not about " |
- | + | ||
God created each and every one of us with a purpose in mind--works He designed us to do: | God created each and every one of us with a purpose in mind--works He designed us to do: | ||
Line 236: | Line 237: | ||
When we sit around wringing our hands, praying and fasting, and " | When we sit around wringing our hands, praying and fasting, and " | ||
* Get up and get busy doing **// | * Get up and get busy doing **// | ||
- | * What comes natural? What do you like doing in the ministry? What is your " | + | * What comes natural? What do you like doing in the ministry? What is your " |
+ | * Remember the [[https:// | ||
If you put a good hammer in your hands, you're gonna look for a nail... that's **// | If you put a good hammer in your hands, you're gonna look for a nail... that's **// | ||
- | * Telology (God's divine design; what He designed us to do) should be the guiding | + | * Telology (God's divine design; what He designed us to do) should be the guiding |
* And we'll never figure it out until we start driving nails... get busy in the ministry. | * And we'll never figure it out until we start driving nails... get busy in the ministry. | ||
+ | |||
+ | |||
+ | ---- | ||
+ | |||
+ | ===== References ===== | ||
+ | |||
+ | **Dr. Peter S. Ruckman** wrote about this in his [[https:// | ||
+ | |||
+ | >I don't particularly appreciate my ministry. I really don't. If I had my way, I'd like to be a big time evangelist and run up and down the country and preach to a town and get people saved. I would like to be a Billy Graham or Jack Van Impe instead of a poor man's Oral Roberts. I don't particularly appreciate my ministry. I don't particularly appreciate God **// | ||
+ | > | ||
+ | >**//You do what you can do and what you are equipped to do.//** Don't follow my example all the way unless the Lord wants you to. If he does, OK; if he doesn' | ||
+ | > | ||
+ | >I have never known God to waste anything, any human life. We waste things, but the Lord doesn' | ||
+ | |||
+ | **Summary: | ||
+ | * Look at your background--everything in your background (it's not an accident: Eph 2.10). | ||
+ | * God doesn' | ||
+ | * Go do what God has // | ||
+ | |||
+ | I wrote a [[https:// | ||
+ | |||
+ | ---- |
topical_call_to_ministry.1587816979.txt.gz · Last modified: 2020/04/25 12:16 by gregkedro