Suffering Servants: Conversations of the Unspoken
Christianity has a lot of unspoken suffering and challenges. Suffering Servants is our attempt to bring these every day struggles into the modern context by reading books, articles, and conversing about the ever changing culture and the Church's response to such change. We also have conversations with other "suffering servants" about their sufferings in life and what God has revealed to them through those sufferings. Ultimately, no matter how awful things get for us here on earth, we know that Christ Jesus, the ultimate Suffering Servant, is not only with us in it but has also promised to redeem it all in His return to make all things new.
Suffering Servants: Conversations of the Unspoken
Faithful Witnesses - The Seminary and Perseverance
We are back from Concordia Theological Seminary - Fort Wayne where we have just received some GREAT news for the Family of God and St. Stephen. We have a new Associate Pastor joining our staff this summer and that had us thinking about Call Day and all of the new pastors that will be entering the ministry. Are these men ready for ministry? Sure! Are they ready to suffer? That is a different story that even we are still figuring out as pastors too.
On this episode we take a look at Paul House's book, Bonhoeffer's Seminary Vision, and talk about a scary word: Affliction. We talk about preparing men and women for the ministry in a world eerily similar to Bonhoeffer's day. We also discuss the vital importance of finding a Barnabas, an advocate to go to war with you against the enemy.
