Ministry
—Selected Lessons
This selection of lessons is about ministry. Every Christian is a minister in some important way. In the New Testament church, there was a great diversity of gifts and ministries in which people served God as stewards of God’s manifold grace.
➤ Prayer as a Ministry—Every Christian is a minister in some important way. One of the greatest is ministry in prayer.
➤ Principles of Timothy's Ministry (1)—Timothy is to set such an excellent example “in speech, conduct, love, faith and purity” that nobody could reasonably hold his youth against him.
➤ Principles of Timothy's Ministry (2)—The worthiness of a man to take up a ministry should be judged primarily on his strength in the word of God. In all his pains, that's what he should major in.
➤ Order in the Church Ministry—Paul now turns his attention back to Timothy himself, and the order that should characterise Timothy’s own life and ministry in the church.
➤ The Ministry of Jesus—In his earthly ministry, Jesus preached the gospel of the kingdom in the regions of the Jordan, Galilee, Judea, Samaria, and Perea. Includes a four-gospel summary of our Lord’s ministry.
➤ The Fourfold Ministry of Jesus—Of the four tasks in Christ’s ministry, the first three were his sole responsibility. The fourth he began, leaving his church to carry it on.
Special series on ministry...
➤ Ministry Series —The lessons in this series point out the great variety of ministries open to the servants of God and his church.