Date: Jun 30, 2003 [ 8: 54: 26]
Subject: Tip of the Week - Success 2
© 2003 BCP Harry Shelton Cole
Subject: Tip of the Week - Success 2
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Tip of the Week 6-07-96
Success
Define Success. We all, as Baptist Preachers, would come up with the
correct biblical answer. If you cannot, then you need to study a little
more. Yet, knowing the biblical answer to a question is often not
sufficient when the cold, hard reality of ministry and expectations from
others are hitting you square in the face. I knew what the biblical
definition of success was but I also knew the judgement of men. What
they say and perceive can destroy your confidence if you let it. Kent
and Barbara Hughes are not Baptists but they were church planters and
were sent out from their church with everything that would insure
"success" in a church plant. After one year they were broken and
dejected. They wept and prayed and then opened God's Word. The results
made it into a little book that I highly recommend to each church
planter "Liberating Ministry from the Success Syndrome". In many ways
it merely restated the biblical view of success but I treasured reading
it and it encouraged my ministry at a very low time.
By the way, those of you who are still looking for the biblical passage
that deals with success in God's eyes, Start with 1 Cor. 4:1-5.
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