Ministerialism.
Dave Bruskas, lead pastor at City on a Hill, recently wrote an article discussing the ugliest sin a minister can commit. It’s what Charles Spurgeon referred to as “ministerialism”…
“Charles Spurgeon warned his students over 140 years ago, ‘There are more secret snares than these, from which we can less easily escape; and of these the worst is the temptation of ministerialism–the tendency to read our Bibles as ministers, to pray as ministers, to get into the whole of our religion as not ourselves personally, but only relatively, concerned in it.’ (Lectures to My Students, p. 15) In other words, there are times I am not really a minister, I only play one in church.”
It’s becoming so obvious to me in my own experience that if I’m doing anything for reasons other than a sold-out, consuming, passionate love for the Lord and a pure joy from my relationship with Him — whatever I’m doing is meaningless.
I’m afraid to admit how many times I’ve led worship, studied the Word, or even preached as “a relatively concerned” person, rather than a true worshiper or servant of Christ.
Read the rest of the article here.
[via: the BRYANT BLOG]
Categorized as Ministry/Christianity, Ministry, Worship