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Suffering, Time and Humility

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Dr. Tim Keller - Ingredients of Excellence in Ministry


I am currently approaching the decade mark in this “detour” that is pastoring and ministering in a local church / direct vocational ministry. I continue to struggle with the Ephesians four interplay of teaching and preaching that is solid pulpit work but there have been astounding blessings God has given myself and my hearers that tend to eclipse the mistakes and errors in judgment. As a person who takes exegesis of the Biblical text very seriously, I have found Keller’s perspective about preaching from pathos that is very close to you in lived experience to be axiomatic to affecting the emotions of the hearers without manipulating them. The key is not allowing even your suffering biography to dominate the preaching and risk stealth bragging about the suffering not destroying you or driving you into despair. Exegetical skill is both crucial and desirable, but lived life of “ups and downs,” disappointments and heartaches, loss and angst is both a conditioner of trans-cultural, trans-temporal, topical relevance as well as a remarkable humbling agent accepted through the ministrations of the Holy Spirit of God in Christ.  

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