Acts 4:7 (KJV) The Stress of Ministry

Acts 4:7 (KJV)

And when they had set them in the midst, they asked, By what power, or by what name, have ye done this?

I can barely imagine the stress Peter and John must have felt. They had only done a good thing. Through God’s grace, they had been used to see a crippled man healed. They had preached the Word of God so that 5000 were saved.

And for that, they put in hold overnight and brought to give an account the next day.

I can hear the words of Jesus not to give thought for the things they were to say but to let the Holy Ghost tell them what to say.[1]

Sometimes I think we know what the Holy Ghost wants us to say, but we don’t want to say it.

There is a lot of talk these days about how hard it is to be a pastor. I agree. I’ve been a pastor for almost forty years. It is hard. But I don’t think it’s healthy to focus on that.

I think much of the problem these days is because pastors spend far too much time trying to manage the “health” of the church, concerned what the “brethren” will think of us,  and far too little time sensitive to the filling of the Holy Ghost and proclaiming what He tells us to say.

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[1] Matthew 10:19 (KJV)
But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak.

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Acts 4:7 (KJV) The Stress of Ministry