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Article: Dedication to
Ministry Includes Your Spouse!
Oftentimes I find myself working for many hours, writing, researching,
thinking, preparing and all the other responsibilities of ministry to others
, as well as, one's personal time with the Lord in prayer and meditation. As
busy ministers, where is the time for our spouses? Certainly, I am not
addressing the regular minister who has his flock and regular office hours
and such. I am addressing the minister that has been given a greater weight,
who has a vision of growth, outreach and helps for the people. As one of
those ministers, I can say that as a prolific writer, course developer,
psychotherapist and pastor, that it becomes quite a task trying to get
everything done and yet, still, have time for my spouse.
I don't want
to talk about myself, because I am sure to be unique in my talents and
subsequent workload. However, I felt from the Lord that many ministers and
their marriages are struggling under the pressures of ministry and marital
obligations. For a while I pondered Paul's admonishment advising ministry as
a single person. The married laborer has the added responsibility of his/her
home - it cannot be set aside or abandoned. In fact, as a minister, we know
that Paul instructs the church to verify the minister's abilities by way of
his handling of his own household - 1Timothy 3:4, "One that ruleth well his
own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity" - and should
we not ourselves apply that same analysis upon our selves? In so doing, we
correct those things in our selves that mitigate our effectiveness as
spouses and even parents. The inefficiencies we may harbor, may adversely
impact the families in our care. By checking our selves, the exercise in and
of itself, may produce in our understanding more relevant and effective
teaching for our congregation. It fosters a better, deeper and more clearer
understanding of scripture and the spiritual realities of God's Grace that
work in His church and in the individual Christian, Christian home and
marriage.
We must not allow the Edenic pattern to be repeated in our
marriages - a spouse so engaged in responsibilities and the other left to
wander, endangering the marriage and household. The result can only be
repeated: sin! Let us not cause our spouses to sin! Let us not forget our
spouses while in the zeal of ministry. There is always a way to keep your
spouse in the ministry and keep your spouse in the marriage. We must be
patient but be responsible to the requirements of both the Church and the
marriage - knowing that the Church is blessed by a good pastoral marriage
and family. It is an example they can emulate. Your marriage and household's
role is to be an example to the all the families in the congregation. Your
work with the congregation should be your full effort, but your spouse is
part of you - your spouse is half or you. It isn't that you need to spread
yourself out three ways or 100 ways, for that matter. Rather, it is your
full dedication to the work of God, which includes, foremost, tending to
yourself entirely (including your spouse and children) and then the church.
The church government needs to be educated in the real benefits of pastoral
families which are healthy, robust, emotionally and spiritually stable so as
to be faithful and superior examples to the congregation of solid and
blessed Christian life. The ministry is not only to prepare people for the
heavenly homestead, but also - just as importantly - how to survive here in
this life and still be a blessing to others and preachers of God's grace to
man with our own lives and just words - while our families go lost and we
suffer divorcement. When pastor's family is not the example in the church,
then all families are left to their own devices as they often seek help
elsewhere with other ministries, pastors and churches. Many never find the
help they need. These become the divorces and backsliders that leave our
pews every year.
The church needs to become an extension of the
pastoral family. We need as pastors to open our family to a greater family -
the body of Christ, which we are charged to teach and lead. However,
teaching and leading must be by example. What are the benefits of this open
pastoral family? That our children can mentor and be mentored by others in
the congregation. It is not only our own children whom we admonish but the
whole congregation's, as well. The youth are our children and they together
with our own need the spiritual father's guidance, exhortation and teaching
about the things of life that is most impacting on their lives. Raising the
children of the congregation puts your children within the family of youth
that is the church. As they grow together and learn form one another, this
is a great help for the pastor who is so busy dealing with the affairs of
church business. But I will discuss children in the next issue of this
newsletter. Continuing with spouses, I cannot over emphasize the great value
a spouse adds to the church's reality. A spouse can become the greatest
asset a pastor can have in pastoring a church or running a ministry. Your
spouse may hold the key to undiscovered ministry and opportunities. Things
happen when a person begins to do a work and develops their talents in
regard to the same. What great blessings are we forfeiting by keeping our
spouses out of the ministry or taking only a subservient role - even that of
bench warmer or pastoral ornament. The spouse is half the ministry. If God
has called you and you were married or you got married (under His direction)
then you should not doubt that your spouse adds a great deal to the
ministry. God has endowed your spouse with some tools and insights that can
only help your ministry - one should not fight it. Learn and let God teach
you through your spouse those things that to every person is hidden until
they begin to see fully through their spousal enhancement.
Oftentimes
we misinterpret spouse's movements and actions as threatening to us or our
authority. We fear the spouse to be an hindrance, an embarrassment or even a
challenge to our ministry or position. We lose so much by keeping the
spousal role to minimums. The spouse should be an extension of our ministry
- the second half of the pastor taking care of the other side of things.
What great efficiencies can be realized when husband and wife work together
to build the Kingdom of God! Each partner need to follow the Pauline
teachings as to the characteristics of each individual's roles. These
characteristics do not interfere with pastoral roles at all - they
compliment them very well!
There are areas of life that the spouse
does best in handling, reminding, urging and even just mentioning. We must
hear our spouses when they speak - understanding their concerns and needs.
We must place their need (which is our own need) as a priority in our lives
if we are to take care of God's church and children! Above all things,
cherish one another in God's grace - fulfilling the desires that God has
placed in man for man's sake and His perpetual glory. When the spouse urges
rest, a break, an extended repose, we must not think of it in our own terms
but as an urging from our spouse for time for marital strengthening and
reinvigoration. We should allow the spouse to take us away from our long
hours of work and dedication to a place of rest, reflection and refocusing.
It is good that we focus on our spouses as they are truly our own selves.
We regard these words:
Eph 5:28 So ought men to love their wives
as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
1Cr 7:33
But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he
may please [his] wife.
1Cr 7:34 There is difference [also] between a
wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord,
that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married
careth for the things of the world, how she may please [her] husband.
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