Ministers and the Ministry

1. Paul v.5-9a. Personality: Loving, Secure, Bold, Unrefined.

2 Corinthians 12:15(KJV)

And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you,

the less I be loved.

2 Corinthians 6:11(KJV)

O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged.

2 Corinthians 7:4(KJV)

Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying of you: I am filled with

comfort, I am exceeding joyful in all our tribulation.

2 Corinthians 10:1-2(KJV)

Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in presence am base among you, but being absent am bold toward you: 2But I beseech you, that I may

not be bold when I am present with that confidence, wherewith I think to be bold against some, which think of us as if we

walked according to the flesh.

1 Corinthians 2:1-5(KJV)

And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring

unto you the testimony of God. 2For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified. 3And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much

trembling. 4And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of

power: 5That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

2 Corinthians 10:10(KJV)

For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily presence is weak,

and his speech contemptible.

Ministers and the Ministry

1. Paul v.5-9a.Personality: Loving, Secure, Bold, Unrefined.b.Response: misunderstood, critical, rejected.

2 Corinthians 7:8-9(KJV)

For though I made you sorry with a letter, I do not repent, though I did repent: for I perceive

that the same epistle hath made you sorry, though it were but for a season. 9Now I

rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were

made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing.

1 Corinthians 4:3(KJV)

But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man’s judgment: yea, I

judge not mine own self.

2 Corinthians 7:2(KJV)

Receive us; we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no man, we have defrauded no

man.

Ministers and the Ministry

1. Paul v.5-9a. Personality: Loving, Secure, Bold, Unrefined.b. Response: misunderstood, critical, rejected.c. Cautions: being right is no replacement for

tangible love.

2. Timothy v.10-11a. Personality: Young, Mature, Tender

1 Timothy 4:12(KJV)

Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation,

in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.

2 Timothy 1:5(KJV)

When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy

grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also.

2 Timothy 3:15(KJV)

And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto

salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

1 Timothy 6:11-12(KJV)

But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience,

meekness. 12Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast

professed a good profession before many witnesses.

1 Timothy 1:2(KJV)

Unto Timothy, my own son in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God our Father and Jesus

Christ our Lord.

1 Timothy 6:20(KJV)

O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and

oppositions of science falsely so called:

1 Timothy 1:18(KJV)

This charge I commit unto thee, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before on

thee, that thou by them mightest war a good warfare;

1 Timothy 4:13-16(KJV)

Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine. 14Neglect not the gift that is in thee,

which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery. 15Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy

profiting may appear to all. 16Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them

that hear thee.

Ministers and the Ministry

1. Paul v.5-9a. Personality: Loving, Secure, Bold, Unrefined.b. Response: misunderstood, critical, rejected.c. Cautions: being right is no replacement for

tangible love.2. Timothy v.10-11

a. Personality: Young, Mature, Tenderb. Response: subject to abuse and disregard.c. Cautions: must develop some backbone.

Ministers and the Ministry

1. Paul v.5-9a. Personality: Loving, Secure, Bold, Unrefined.b. Response: misunderstood, critical, rejected.c. Cautions: being right is no replacement for tangible love.

2. Timothy v.10-11a. Personality: Young, Mature, Tenderb. Response: subject to abuse and disregard.c. Cautions: must develop some backbone.

3. Apollos v.12a. Personality: Strong leader, Eloquent teacherb. Response: well receivedc. Caution: Platform ministry is no replacement for

loving people.