Advice for a person getting started in ministry ...

[WesWoodell]

Tips, suggestions, testimony, lessons, Scriptures or anything else that might be useful to an individual beginning in ministry can be posted here (and would be appreciated :) ).


Lets hear it! :)

[Bizzlebin Imperatoris]

Which ministry?

[WesWoodell]

God's of course. ;)

[Bizzlebin Imperatoris]

Lay ministry? Priest? Bishop?

[Theophorus]

The most common way is to have a degree from Pepperdine, or Harding or another CoC school. They have placement programs and many churches look to one of the colleges that suits their flavour of doctrine.
Another alternative is to have finished a course in bible at a bible school. Again most of these help with placement.

here are a couple of links to get you started.

http://church-of-christ.org/universities/United_States/U_United_States.htm

http://cofc.abbottpages.com/links.php?cat=23

[Freedom&Light]

My very favorite teachers at ACU all seemed to have gone to Sunset School of Preaching. :)

[icebreaker]

Roanoke Bible College :) gotta support my school

[Jim Woodell]

Study 1st and 2nd Timothy carefully. These were books written to encourage and give direction to a young preacher by his father in the faith. He told him, among other things, "Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a workman who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth. Avoid godless chatter, because those who indulge in it will become more and more ungodly." (1 Tim. 2:15-16)

Dad

[IntimateFriend]

Take the advice of Jesus on Matthew 10:37-39 seriously. Every Christian is in the ministry of reconciliation. Every Christian is commanded to make disciples. Every Christian is a ambassadors for Christ. We have to be follow Jesus even to the point of death and heed His Spirit if we want to be successful in ministry. This is the first prequisite in following Jesus or entering into the ministry if you want to put it that way: forsaking all and denying one self. God Bless. Hope you guys will understand that all of us Christians are ministers one way or the other.

[ReverentRob]

As long as we're supporting our "alma mater," I put one in for St. Louis Christian College. I'm a 1991 Soldier grad!:P

[aggie03]

Study 1st and 2nd Timothy carefully. These were books written to encourage and give direction to a young preacher by his father in the faith. He told him, among other things, "Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a workman who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth. Avoid godless chatter, because those who indulge in it will become more and more ungodly." (1 Tim. 2:15-16)

Dad

Amen! :amen: