Qualifications For Ministerial Power - The Carew Lectures For 1895 (1895) (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Ill QUALIFICATIONS EXPERIENTIAL AND DEVOTIONAL OUR pathway, in the present lecture, leads over holy ground, and through regions noble and awful with the presence of God. We are to examine those qualifications for ministerial power which are derived from spiritual experience and devotional life. In the nature of the case it was to be expected that this branch of the subject would demand early and thorough investigation. In the first lecture the essential nature of ministerial power was thus defined: " It consists in the calling of the individual by the Holy Spirit, in the indwelling of the Holy Spirit within the called, and in the outgoings of the Spirit's power through all the gifts and resources of a consecrated manhood." Upon the basis of this definition, an enquiry into experiential and devotional qualifications must be regarded as of first importance. Moreover, such an inquiry is demanded by our theory of man's triune personality, as stated in the second lecture, as follows: " Personality in man, like personality in God, is a triune relationship: three in one, one in three. The body, the mind, the spirit of the individual are wrought into oneness to produce manhood;nor can one be said to have explored the territory of personality until each realm, the realm of body, the realm of mind, the realm of spirit, has been examined and reported on in its relation to the whole man. For lack of this comprehensive view of personality, and a corresponding, all-round development, ministerial power has suffered deficiency even in some who acknowledged the importance of personality as a factor of power." We have attempted to speak of qualifications pertaining to the first and second parts of man's triune personality. We have set forth the necessity for physical and intellectual discipl...