Does what you believe change according to the circumstances in your life or that of someone close to you? The foundation of our faith is designed to be developed to the point where it will hold up regardless of the atmosphere. I have been in vocational ministry now for 23 years now and here is something I have observed. All it takes for many ministers to change what they believe is for them to experience a failure. If their church would have exploded they would possess a completely different outlook than they do now. When their ministry venture doesn't turn out as they dreamed, they get angry, critical and cynical and find every fault possible with the church world. On the other hand, if their ministry would have exploded...more than likely they'd still be in the same location doing, believing and being all the same things they were before! At some point we all experience failure, and it's then that our our doctrine is either stronger and more resolute or we st
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