THE MAN WHO WOULD SUFFER (1 OF 8)
The Man who would Suffer (1 of 8)
Series: Job
Robert Dawson
Job 1:1-5
Christopher Ash shares a discussion one pastor had with a small group of his pastor friends. They were talking about ministry, teaching and preaching when he asked them how they would handle and preach the book of Job. As the discussion started, he found his mind wandering for a few minutes because it hit him, the question he asked and the particular group of men he had posed it to. The question was not so much about preaching or how to approach or organize a sermon series on Job, but about suffering and how to preach it. As he looked at that small group of men, he saw...
- One pastor who, some years ago, lost his wife to an accident in their very first year of marriage.
- Another pastor in the group was raising a severely handicapped daughter, along with the pressures of being a husband and pastor.
- Yet another had recently overcome a neck injury that had literally brought him to within a couple of millimeters of being paralyzed for life or even death.
- A fourth pastor, throughout his life, had endured repeated radical and invasive surgeries that had drastically and permanently altered his life.
It was a stark reminder that the subject of suffering and God's sovereignty and the questions they bring, which are both major issues in the book of Job, was not merely theoretical or academic. It was real and personal and would be to the people to whom he preached.
When we think and teach about suffering, we do so, as Ash says, from the ''armchair (easy-chair) or the wheelchair.''
- It will be something remote to us, we see it and deal with it from a distance, or it will be something very real, very personal, very tender and perhaps very present in our lives.
- For some, it makes infrequent appearances in our lives. For others, it can be found in every chapter of our story. For some of you, it has been etched and stamped on every page.
Suffering is very real and the answe ...
Series: Job
Robert Dawson
Job 1:1-5
Christopher Ash shares a discussion one pastor had with a small group of his pastor friends. They were talking about ministry, teaching and preaching when he asked them how they would handle and preach the book of Job. As the discussion started, he found his mind wandering for a few minutes because it hit him, the question he asked and the particular group of men he had posed it to. The question was not so much about preaching or how to approach or organize a sermon series on Job, but about suffering and how to preach it. As he looked at that small group of men, he saw...
- One pastor who, some years ago, lost his wife to an accident in their very first year of marriage.
- Another pastor in the group was raising a severely handicapped daughter, along with the pressures of being a husband and pastor.
- Yet another had recently overcome a neck injury that had literally brought him to within a couple of millimeters of being paralyzed for life or even death.
- A fourth pastor, throughout his life, had endured repeated radical and invasive surgeries that had drastically and permanently altered his life.
It was a stark reminder that the subject of suffering and God's sovereignty and the questions they bring, which are both major issues in the book of Job, was not merely theoretical or academic. It was real and personal and would be to the people to whom he preached.
When we think and teach about suffering, we do so, as Ash says, from the ''armchair (easy-chair) or the wheelchair.''
- It will be something remote to us, we see it and deal with it from a distance, or it will be something very real, very personal, very tender and perhaps very present in our lives.
- For some, it makes infrequent appearances in our lives. For others, it can be found in every chapter of our story. For some of you, it has been etched and stamped on every page.
Suffering is very real and the answe ...
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