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139: Priest – Why a Priesthood?
8-28-2011
Scriptures:
2 Corinthians 5:14-21
Proverbs 21:2
1 Peter 2
Matthew 5:13-16
Hebrews 4:14-16
Galatians 5:22-26
Hebrews 10:11-25
Quotes:
“God rewards those who seek Him. Not those who seek doctrine of religion or systems or creeds. Many settle for these lesser passions, but the reward goes to those who settle for nothing less than Jesus himself. And what is the reward? What awaits those who seek Jesus? Nothing short of the heart of Jesus.”
- Max Lucado
“If you love the quiet retreat that you create in order to meet God, you may not love God at all but only the pointless discipline of quietness. If you love the literature of the saints more than you desire to emulate their holiness, you are too much the captive of your reading and not the servant of your Lord. If you seem to talk a lot about prayer but pray very little, you are seeking only a godly mystique and not God himself. God is never honored by our sterile fascination with him.”
- Miller
“If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality. ”
- Oswald Chambers
“The biblical fact is that there are no successful churches. There are, instead, communities of sinners, gathered before God week after week in towns and villages all over the world. The Holy Spirit gathers them and does his work in them. In these communities of sinners, one of the sinners is called pastor and given a designated responsibility in the community. The pastor’s responsibility is to keep the community attentive to God.”
- Eugene H. Peterson
“Teach me the wilderness simplicity. Help me to point to you, honestly and joyously, as the threshold of all that really matters.”
-Calvin Miller
