When faithfulness in Ministry gets narrowed down
It was an interesting afternoon at the Sem, with and interesting the topic on the agenda. But I didn't see that coming. Talking about pastoral formation, one of the presenters proposed:"From pastors, the only thing required is that they are faithful." The part that I didn't see coming was: "He doesn't need to do fancy things like preaching on TV, or have this and that gift, or...." And a few more items were added to the list. At the time, I was the presenter of Toque de Vida, a daily music & message TV program. The presenter knew that. So, like they say in Brazil: "I could have gone to bed without that one." Or maybe not. At the time it bothered me. Not so much the criticism of TV preaching but what to me sounded as the narrowing down of the word "faithful." What transpired from that definition is that if I only repeat the Words of the Bible and from the Confessions, that is already enough to keep my call active and to prevent me...
