Once a week at seminary I have a class called Discipleship Lab. A pastor from Grace Community Church leads our group. There are about 8 men in the group. Three of the men shared their testimony this past week. Again, it was a blessing to hear how the Lord was working in their lives.
A pastor will normally go through times of fire in his life. These are times of refinement. Think of the refining process to get pure gold. The impure rises to the top and is taken off by the refiner. What remains is closer to pure gold than when the process started. In a person's life, the Lord brings about many things to sanctify us (refine us to be more like Him). Though we will always be sinful people while on earth, the pattern of a believer's life should be one of continued growth.
The fire a few of these men have been through is amazing. The humility of one guy, who "had it all" according to the world, from having a Ph.D in science to traveling the world as a speaker for the IBM technology research group to traveling the world speaking at creation seminars; the guy now pastors a church of 150 outside San Franscisco and would never have mentioned those things to us had not one of the guys asked so many questions.
Dear Lord, may you continually mold me into the man of God you've called me to be.
Praying for you...
Dave
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