Accept your Vulnerability

Call in the New Testament Jesus and His Calls in Ministry Live in the light of God (Isaiah 2:5)    Lydia: Called to Serve 1 Corinthians 2:1-5 New International Version 2 And so it was with me, brothers and sisters. When I came to you, I did not come with eloquence or human wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God.[a] 2 For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. 3 I came to you in weakness with great fear and trembling. 4 My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power, 5 so that your faith might not rest on human wisdom, but on God’s power. For Reflection When asked what a preacher of the word should do if he were not eloquent, Saint Augustine advised to just read the Gospel. Its eloquence is self-evident.  Fred Craddock remarks that the sermon is a means by which God will speak to the listener.   Thinking that one needs to be a superior speaker to bear witness to the Cross assumes a notion of self-importance.  All God asks of us is that we are obedient to the Word and that we use our lives as a demonstration of the power of the Holy Spirit. Pray Pray, and allow the love of God to drive and animated you through the Holy Spirit that resides within you. Forward to a friend