![]() Part of being a good minister of Jesus Christ includes self-counsel. ![]() Continue in them, for in doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you. 16 Take heed to yourself and to the doctrine. 15 Meditate on these things give yourself entirely to them, that your progress may be evident to all. 14 Do not neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to you by prophecy with the laying on of the hands of the eldership. 13 Till I come, give attention to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine. 8 For bodily exercise profits a little, but godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come.ġ2 Let no one despise your youth, but be an example to the believers in word, in conduct, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity. 7 But reject profane and old wives’ fables, and exercise yourself toward godliness. Christlikeness is a battle for your pastor as much as it is for you.Ħ If you instruct the brethren in these things, you will be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished in the words of faith and of the good doctrine which you have carefully followed. Just as you are tempted to sin in the midst of life’s pressures, just as you must put on Christ and make no provision for the flesh, and just as you must choose godliness continually, your pastor must do these things as well. Temptation is common to all (1 Cor 10:13). Just as you are challenged to walk in the Spirit and fight the flesh, your pastor faces the same battle as well. Your pastor and you share the same opportunities to honor the Lord daily and the same challenges to live for Christ too.
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