A university once asked me for a mid-year report on a Church intern's progress. I assessed him on various criteria -- most of them standard, such as counselling, preaching, administration. But I also assessed him on “spiritual power”. This, I think, is crucial to ministry. OBSERVATION: Ministry can only go so far on human power. There needs to be spiritual power, too, which is rooted in faith, so as to have an impact on people’s lives, to enable one to face situations of spiritual warfare, and to sustain ministry where human power is powerless (which is most of the time).
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