Sacred Roots Workshop

32 Sacred Roots Workshop: Retr ieving the Great Tradi t ion in the Contemporary Church

C. God’s call to salvation and ministry involves separation of one’s life and goods to testify and demonstrate the freedom, wholeness, and justice of the Kingdom of God.

1. A willingness to become all things to all men in order to save some, 1 Cor. 9.22-27

2. A readiness to suffer and even die in order for Christ’s reign to be proclaimed and extended, Acts 20.24-32

3. A commitment to make oneself unconditionally available to Christ in order to be used to testify solemnly of the grace and gospel as the Spirit leads, John 12.24; Acts 1.8; Matt. 28.18-20

4. Celebrate our Father’s gracious intent and action to defeat our mortal enemy, the devil

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Have I made myself unconditionally available to Jesus Christ to be used as His bondservant and instrument whenever and wherever He may lead in order for the Kingdom message to be proclaimed and demonstrated?

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

D. God’s call to salvation and ministry involves preparation to steward God’s mysteries of the Kingdom, the sacred Scriptures, and the apostolic doctrine.

1. To rightly divide the Word of truth as God’s workman, 2 Tim. 2.15