by Zeke Flores<\/p>\n
There are both good and bad, positive and negative aspects to it. But I can say that the positive far outweighs the negative.<\/p>\n
Because of the nature of the work, you get opportunities to serve the best people in the world – Christians – all the time. You get to help people at crucial and critical moments, such as funerals and weddings, as well as during sickness and crises of every kind. Your family sometimes receives special gifts and tokens of appreciation, just because you’re the preacher. People often praise you for doing your job because you are helping them draw closer to God and heaven. People pray for you constantly, by name. You get paid for studying the Bible and teaching it to others.<\/p>\n
You go to bed at night knowing that through the grace of God, you’re doing something that matters: changing eternity.<\/p>\n
But one thing that never changes is the responsibility to speak the truth, always speak the truth.<\/p>\n
“I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching. For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. As for you, always be sober-minded, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry<\/em>” (II Timothy 4:1-4).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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