Part I: The Man

T. PAUL points out im one single chapter (Col. 1) that the mimstry is related at once to Christ ( v. 7); to the Gospel (v. 23); and to the Church ( v. 25); to Christ as the Source, to the Gospel as the Message, and to the Church as the Sphere. All considerations of the Christian mimstry must take account of these three aspects, and in the various parts of Holy Scripture where the ministry 1s dealt with, it will be seen that this threefold relationship im one or other of its phases is kept in VIEW.

The Biblical idea of the ministry may be considered in a number of ways. We will now look at it as suggested for us by the Old Testament Prophet, by the New Testament Apostle, by the personal experiences of St. Paul, and by the counsels he gave to one of his younger ministerial brethren.

Then follows a consideration of the ministerial
call and its subsequent obligations.