A thought from Albert Mohler, President of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary:
The uniqueness of the call to Christian ministry is bound up in the fact that ministers will not finish what they started because they are laying the foundation upon which God is constructing his church. The call to ministry is not one of completing a task, but of faithful gospel proclamation that God grows and finishes. The biblical conception of the Christian ministry is, as we should not be surprised to find, radically at odds with worldly wisdom. Every minister must take care to build faithfully upon the foundation. The one who plants and the who waters are nothing in themselves. The agent of all true Gospel ministry is God himself. As 1 Corinthians 3 makes clear, the worthiness of our work will be fully disclosed on the day of judgment and tested by fire.
