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?
