What does it feel like to experience resurrection power in Christian ministry? Paul tells us it feels like death. God deliberately works to keep the Christian weak so that all power in ministry is seen to be his alone. This message is what keeps Paul from losing heart, but it differs radically from that of pedlars of false gospels down through the ages.
The experience of this ministry
2 Corinthians 4:7-12
Treasure in Jars of Clay
7 But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us. 8 We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; 9 persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; 10 always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our bodies. 11 For we who live are always being given over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh. 12 So death is at work in us, but life in you.
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