Fulfill your ministry

by chuckofish

I have been saving this meme to use on New Year’s Eve…but oh well. I am a day late and a dollar short.

Yesterday we had a great sermon by our guest preacher, Dr. Dan Doriani, who has been filling in some until our new senior pastor starts next month. He preached on 2 Timothy 4:1-8, which certainly speaks to us in the 21st century, and gave us some advice for welcoming our new pastor.

I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: 2 preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching. 3 For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, 4 and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. 5 As for you, always be sober-minded, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.

6 For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure has come. 7 I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. 8 Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me on that day, and not only to me but also to all who have loved his appearing.

I thanked Dr. Doriani and shook his hand, but what I wanted to say was, “I am reminded of the time the truck driver approached John MacArthur in a diner along some highway and said, “Are you John MacArthur?” and Rev. MacArthur said, “well, yes, I am.” And the truck driver said, “Can I hug you?”

Happy New Year! Thanks for reading the blog!