Jonathan Edwards was a pastor/theologian. Piper argues that this is an essential combination that our church needs today and for the future! These are the main points he feels pastors should digest from Edwards' life.
1) Be radically single-minded in you commitment to know God
2) Labour earnestly to know the Scriptures (Get your vision of God primarily from the bible, not theologians, blogs, God-TV or Desiringgod.com)
3) Redeem the time and do what our hands find to do with all our might (be disciplined)
4) Study for the sake of heart felt worship and practical obedience (Cultivate a passion AND knowledge of God)
5) In all your study and in all your pastoral labour, seek to glorify God by enjoying Him forever.
Download the audio which is worth listening to again and again.
http://www.desiringgod.org/ResourceLibrary/Biographies/1458_The_Pastor_as_Theologian/
Seek not to grow in knowledge chiefly for the sake of applause and to enable you to dispute with others, seek it for the benefit of your souls and in order to practice with what knowledge you have!
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