Ministry Reflection

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THEOLOGY
1) Give examples of how the practice of ministry has affected your experience and understanding of:
A. God:
Being fully engaged in full time ministry has served to bring greater life and depth to my personal experience and understanding of our triune God. Experiencing God in ministry with others in an assortment of settings that cover a variety of life circumstances and emotions (weddings, funerals, counseling, small groups, visitations, times of worship, Holy Communion, Baptism etc.) has provided opportunities for God to reveal Godself to me in fresh and reviving ways. Seeing God at work in others illuminates ways that God can work in me. Seeing God at work in me illuminates ways that God can work in others. Through ministering to …show more content…

I seek to allow God’s grace to continually transform me more and more into the image of Christ. I strive to become the man of God he has created me to be. I hold holiness of head, heart and hand to be my foremost focus. Mental purity and physical purity are constant focus in this process towards entire sanctification. Additionally, the objective to “love one another as Christ has loved us” serves as a catalyst towards this goal. I do believe that with the grace of God and the power of His Holy Spirit I am going on to …show more content…

It is so easy to get lulled into a sense of comfort regarding who we are, where we are, and how we got there with very little concern for where we are actually heading and where we will end up absent a course correction. God keeps prodding me with the dangers associated with any church environment where programs and practices are maintained, not because of the Kingdom impact they create or the community transformation they bring but because they have, over the course of many years, become the comfortable, business as usual means of existing. This creates a disturbing angst within my

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