Personal holiness is among a minister's greatest needs, David Platt said during a seminar on the "spiritual life of the minister" at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary.
"I know myself really well, and I know I'm not certainly always a model of strength in this issue we're about to talk about," Platt said. "So I'm just sharing this as one fellow struggler in the battle alongside you."
Platt, pastor of The Church at Brook Hills in Birmingham, Ala., and a graduate of New Orleans Seminary, presented six characteristics of spiritually healthy ministry leaders, gleaned from the story of Elijah in 1 and 2 Kings. The seminar, which followed a chapel sermon by Platt, was held in the seminary's Martin Chapel with a capacity crowd in attendance. Keep reading
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The second article is a slightly longer version of the first article. It provides some details omitted from the first article. For example, it gives a fuller explantion of the acrostic R.E.A.P.
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