W. Robert Godfrey
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2,522 appearances
12 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 31 Jul
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and that the ministers would gather for a social time, an encouraging time, a sharing time.
It was nothing official or ministerial about it.
But I've thought of that over the years because I see a lot of young ministers who are lonely.
And I'm afraid part of the ethos of American churches is too often ministers feel sort of in competition with one another.
And I would encourage ministers to think about trying to cultivate ministerial friends with whom you can share things that it's not always easy to share with members of the congregation.
And I certainly agree with everything that Derek said, but I think to have a space where ministers can encourage one another can be very useful, and you've got to work at that.
Everybody's so busy, so maybe as a church you can encourage the minister to have time and take time to spend with other ministers for encouragement.
Well, I...
I want to share that about three weeks ago, a lady came up to me after church.
We've been in the same church for decades together.
We know each other, but not super well.
And she handed me a little piece of needlepoint with a text in it that I had preached, I think, years before.
And she said, that meant so much to me.
I hate weepy old men.
But it was a profound experience for me that she, for a long time, had remembered a sermon and remembered a text and been helped by it.
And what an encouragement it was to me.
In the Dutch Reformed churches—don't laugh now, this is serious—in the Dutch Reformed churches at Communion, there's a form that is read, which has the words of institution, quotes 1 Corinthians, issues the warning.
But then in the middle of that form, there's a turn that says, this is not to discourage
the weak from coming to the table and develops the thought of what are the real qualifications for coming to the table in terms of faith and repentance.
And I would say getting one of those forms and reading it and reflecting on it might really help you before you come to the table to evaluate where you are spiritually.
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