All Articles For A Pastor’s Heart

Prof. Hanko is professor of Church History and New Testament in the Protestant Reformed Seminary. (Second installment of a speech delivered at the Officebearers’ Conference in South Holland, IL, March 2, 1993) Requiring Specific Gifts (cont.) Certain gifts are also required of a pastor/minister which have to do with himself. A couple of texts speak directly to this. In I Timothy 1:6, Paul urges upon Timothy: “that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee by the putting on of my hands.” And in 4:16 he writes to his spiritual son: “Take heed to thyself, and unto the...

Prof. Hanko is professor of Church History and New Testament in the Protestant Reformed Seminary. *Keynote address given at the Officebearers’ Conference of Classis West in South Holland, IL on March 2, 1993. Introduction When the committee which plans these conferences approached me to speak on the topic, “A Pastor’s Heart,” I mildly demurred. My reasons were two. Pastors who are actively and almost continually involved in pastoral work, it seemed to me, hardly need anyone to tell them about their work. One does not go to a skilled neural surgeon to explain to him how to go about operating...