First, thank you to all who prayed for me today as I was taking my final exam in Church History part 1. It went very well and I never realized I could type over 3,000 words in less than 2 hours. God is good. But as I was taking this class and studying for this test I came across something that intrigued me from my notes and Professor. I came across the "Pastoral Rule" by Gregory the Great who was a famous Bishop in the church from 590-604 A.D.
In this rule he lists 5 things that ever Pastor must or should have as qualities.
1)Pure in thought
2)Active in serving others
3)Discrete or confidential
4)First in Compassion
5)Last in bribes or falling prey to sin
I found this not only interesting and convicting for me as someone who is pursuing the ministry. I found this convicting me as a Jesus lover and witness to the world. The world and those who do not know Jesus should be seeing all of these in every Christian because then they will see Jesus the Savior and Redeemer.
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