Seven Characteristics of a Faithful Minister (TOM)
1. Son, be strong in grace. 2. Son, be strong in service. 3. Son, be a strong athlete. 4. Son, be a strong husbandman, a cultivator. 5. Son, be a strong workman. 6. Be a strong vessel. 7. Be a strong servant, a doulos. Those are the seven characteristics given in 2 Timothy, chapter 2, with an exhortation on each one of the characteristics. 2Ti 2:1-4; 1Ti 1:2 2Ti 2:5-12; Psa 3:2, 4, 8 2Ti 2:13-22 2Ti 2:23-26 ------------------------------- “The Seven Characteristics of a Faithful Minister” Victor Paul Wierwille January 15, 1984 - Transcript - Emporia, Kansas God bless and greetings to all of you in the wonderful name of our living lord and savior Jesus Christ. Tonight I had prepared for you an 8 ½ x 11 sheet of paper that has the whole teaching on it. This teaching that I’m going to share with you tonight, I think, is one of the most important teachings that I could do at this time in the history of our ministry and of my life. I’d like for you to turn to II Timothy. Tonight the subject is: the seven characteristics of a faithful minister. I wanted to share this with the leadership Friday at International, but we had so much other business to take care of that we never got to it. So you are the people that’ll have to live through it tonight. But everybody there, I think, was an ordained minister and I had been working this and I wanted to share it, but as I said, just time was not available. This is also the truth regarding a twig coordinator. There is an exhortation of each characteristic given in this second chapter of II Timothy. The number seven, people, is the number of perfection, and this is the only place in the Bible where all the seven characteristics of a faithful minister are put together in one chapter. So all you need to do is understand this chapter, and you’ll always be able to judge from the Word of God (let the Word of God do the judging) of whether the ministry of a twig coordinator or any other individual is according to the Word of God. It is the
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Tweet Topic: logospedia,mobi,epub, Leadership,Grace, Service,Athlete,Husbandman,Cultivator,Workman,Vessel,Doulos, pdf,logospedia,2 timothy 2:1-26,podbean Format: audio - digitized Publication Date: 01-15-1984 Pages: 11 Victor Paul Wierwille was a Bible scholar and teacher for over four decades. By means of Dr. Wierwille's dynamic teaching of the accuracy and integrity of God's Word, foundational class and advanced class graduates of Power for Abundant Living have learned that the one great requirement for every student of the Bible is to rightly divide the Word of Truth. Thus, his presentation of the Word of God was designed for students who desire the in-depth-accuracy of God’s Word. In his many years of research, Dr. Wierwille studied with such men as Karl Barth, E. Stanley Jones, Glenn Clark, Bishop K.C. Pillai, and George M. Lamsa. His formal training included Bachelor of Arts and Ba