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Written by: Michael A. Milton 2/24/2009 11:20 AM
The Pastor’s Wife and Her Role with the Church Last night we enjoyed our second Mrs. in Ministry session on “The Pastor’s Wife and Her Role with the Church.” An outline of our evening is given below. After beginning with the song, Follow Your Call, and calling us to our gathering with 1 Corinthians 9:16 and Paul’s “burden” to preach, we prayed and launched into Biblical truths from the Song of Hannah for the pastor’s wife. The Pastor’s Wife and her Role Relationship with the Local Church I. Hannah’s Song for the Pastor’s Wife and the Local Church Though she would become the ‘pastor’s mother’ she never the less demonstrated how trusting she was in God’s power, the Gospel, to establish His will. While she languished in seeming weakness, this is a pattern of godliness for the pastor’s wife. Concerning a pastor’s wife and her relationship to the Church, we can look at Hannah’s song and discover God’s will: • Your relationship to the church is first and always a ministry of prayer. (2:1-10) • Your relationship to the church will always be to lean hard on God’s strength to accomplish what you cannot. (2:1, 2) • Your relationship to the church will sometimes require you to bring your frustration to the Lord for His disposal. (2:3-8) • Your relationship to the church is grounded in the firm confidence that God will take care of His own (the pastoral family) (2:9) • Your relationship to the church is grounded in the vision of the Father to glorify His Son, whose ministry is at work in your family. (2:10) II. Some Practical Thoughts on the Pastor’s Wife and the Local Church • Your role in the call (encouraging your husband’s best for God’s glory and the Church’s good and your family’s good) • Your role in establishing relationships in the church (how to land safely on the runway of a new church or ministry) • Your role with the elders or other lay leadership in the church (when to pray, and when to…pray) • Your role as a gifted member of the Body of Christ (leading from the Manse not from the committees; and enjoying the community while not directing it) • Your role as counselor to the Pastor of the church (when to nudge and when to let it go) The evening ended with a good discussion, questions, prayer time and fellowship.
Last night we enjoyed our second Mrs. in Ministry session on “The Pastor’s Wife and Her Role with the Church.” An outline of our evening is given below.
After beginning with the song, Follow Your Call, and calling us to our gathering with 1 Corinthians 9:16 and Paul’s “burden” to preach, we prayed and launched into Biblical truths from the Song of Hannah for the pastor’s wife.
I. Hannah’s Song for the Pastor’s Wife and the Local Church
Though she would become the ‘pastor’s mother’ she never the less demonstrated how trusting she was in God’s power, the Gospel, to establish His will. While she languished in seeming weakness, this is a pattern of godliness for the pastor’s wife.
Concerning a pastor’s wife and her relationship to the Church, we can look at Hannah’s song and discover God’s will:
• Your relationship to the church is first and always a ministry of prayer. (2:1-10) • Your relationship to the church will always be to lean hard on God’s strength to accomplish what you cannot. (2:1, 2) • Your relationship to the church will sometimes require you to bring your frustration to the Lord for His disposal. (2:3-8) • Your relationship to the church is grounded in the firm confidence that God will take care of His own (the pastoral family) (2:9) • Your relationship to the church is grounded in the vision of the Father to glorify His Son, whose ministry is at work in your family. (2:10)
II. Some Practical Thoughts on the Pastor’s Wife and the Local Church
• Your role in the call (encouraging your husband’s best for God’s glory and the Church’s good and your family’s good) • Your role in establishing relationships in the church (how to land safely on the runway of a new church or ministry) • Your role with the elders or other lay leadership in the church (when to pray, and when to…pray) • Your role as a gifted member of the Body of Christ (leading from the Manse not from the committees; and enjoying the community while not directing it) • Your role as counselor to the Pastor of the church (when to nudge and when to let it go)
The evening ended with a good discussion, questions, prayer time and fellowship.
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