THE MAKING OF A MINISTER

Remember it was a great man who was here speaking and acknowledging that he could not even think aright without God’s help. Thinking is a minister’s chief task. He must think more than he speaks. Yet he can think nothing of himself.

1. A minister is a made man.‘Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament’, verse 6. A minister must be made sufficient.God must supply his deficiency, Acts 26:16-18. He is a man The Lord must take in hand in order to prepare. His preparation involves seeing Christ. 

2. He is made into a minister. He is a messenger for that is what the word means. This is a nice little play on words in the Greek which is not seen in the English. The word for sufficient hikanos {hik-an-os’}, comes from hiko, meaning to arrive. When God makes a sufficient minister He makes a messenger who arrives with the message. He is able to get his message over.