Qualified: Serving God with Integrity and Finishing Your Course with Honor

The Apostle Paul declares his own need for ongoing discipline and diligence, lest after preaching to others he would become disqualified (1 Corinthians 9:27). If one can be disqualified from effective ministry, it stands to reason that there is also a process of becoming qualified. What is involved in becoming (and staying) a...vessel for honor, sanctified and useful for the Master, prepared for every good work (2 Timothy 2:21)?

The great challenge of spiritual leadership is not simply in kn...