Dad = Titus

May 16, 2012

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It was exactly two years ago that I was ordained to the ministry. Yesterday I went back and looked at the ordination vow I made. Even better, I went back and looked at the notes my son jotted down during the sermon that day. The text was Titus 2:15: “Declare these things; exhort and rebuke with all authority. Let no one disregard you.” Here is what he wrote:

Dad = Titus
Dad Needs To:
Speak the gospel to God’s people
Make people remember God
Preach the gospel to the pastors
Preach the gospel to mom
Preach the gospel to me and my sisters
Be a model in his life
Rebuke people if they do wrong
Have patience and love

And I guess that’s the ministry in a nutshell, isn’t it?

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