Every pastor confronts his own weakness during his ministry. Answer the call to shepherd his sheep, and it won’t take long before you realize your limitations are prime opportunities for God to demonstrate his remarkable faithfulness. This is the wonderful reality to which God’s gospel and those who proclaim it testify.
In this new five-minute video, Bryan Chapell (TGC council member and senior pastor of Grace Presbyterian Church in Peoria, Illinois) shares about a season early in his own ministry when he experienced the faithfulness of God, even in the face of his own weakness. Chapell tells about his days as a fresh seminary grad trying to lead many in his church through a particularly challenging season. “I had no concept of how difficult pastoring a church would be,” he recalls. Watch above to hear how God used the writings of Sidney Greidanus and Chapell’s own sense of failure to grow him and his congregation in the sufficiency of God’s grace in the gospel.
Free eBook by Tim Keller: ‘The Freedom of Self-Forgetfulness’
Imagine a life where you don’t feel inadequate, easily offended, desperate to prove yourself, or endlessly preoccupied with how you look to others. Imagine relishing, not resenting, the success of others. Living this way isn’t far-fetched. It’s actually guaranteed to believers, as they learn to receive God’s approval, rather than striving to earn it.
In Tim Keller’s short ebook, The Freedom of Self-Forgetfulness: The Path To True Christian Joy, he explains how to overcome the toxic tendencies of our age一not by diluting biblical truth or denying our differences一but by rooting our identity in Christ.
TGC is offering this Keller resource for free, so you can discover the “blessed rest” that only self-forgetfulness brings.
