Here's an outstanding panel discussion on handling suffering in the ministry.
Highlights:
13:00 - Ray Ortlund, Jr. on the Spirit helping us in our weakness
28:00 - Thick skin, soft heart...
34:00 - "The Lord is so faithful to straighten things out if we give Him time."
34:30 - Be okay with being misunderstood
40:00 - On 2 Timothy 2:24-26 - People don't get persuaded by contentious arguing.
Edwards: "The longer I live the more I respect gentleness."
Spurgeon: "Use hard arguments and soft words."
Our public discourse today has soft arguments and hard words!
Augustine: "There is not one soul in the human family to whose salvation the one Mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, is not absolutely necessary" (Letters, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers 1, vol. 1, pg. 525).
Or as my wife might say, "All y'all need Jesus."
Paul Tripp, on God's sovereign writing of your story. There are no competing script-writers of your life - it is ALL in His hands, so trust Him.
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