1 Peter 1:13 (CSB): Therefore, with your minds ready for action, be sober-minded and set your hope completely on the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
“I owe much to Eomer,” said Theoden. “Faithful heart may have forward tongue.
“Say also,” said Gandalf, “that to crooked eyes truth my wear a wry smile.”
-Twin Towers “The King of the Golden Hall”
Embrace faithfulness, not fame. Faithfully plod on day after day. Love, lead, and feed the sheep you've been given like it's the most important thing Jesus called you to do in the church #pastoringsmalltowns@TheCarolinaDon
Let all bitterness, anger and wrath, shouting and slander be removed from you, along with all malice. And be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving one another, just as God also forgave you in Christ.Eph 4:31–32 (CSB)
Instead of seeing discipleship as a frantic push toward creating people in our image, the sanctified slowness of patience helps us reengineer this damaging directive #pastoringsmalltowns@ronniejmartin
@johnbotkin Good to hear from you, John. We are doing well. We have been back in the States for almost two years now. In the very early stages of a new church plant in small town TX. The Lord is faithful!
We proclaim him, warning and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone mature in Christ. I labor for this, striving with his strength that works powerfully in me Col 1:28–29 (CSB)
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14 How, then, can they call on him they have not believed in? And how can they believe without hearing about him? And how can they hear without a preacher? Romans 10:14 (CSB)
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5 Act wisely toward outsiders, making the most of the time. 6 Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you should answer each person Col 4:5–6 (CSB)