SPIRITUAL QUALIFICATIONS
The real qualifications for ministry are spiritual, not scholastic. The Lord seems to delight in shaking up the theological world by revealing truth to unlikely candidates like A. W. Tozer, or to a British Army officer like Major Ian Thomas. God, it seems, is well able to make his own channels for disseminating his truth. I say this only that we might let God be God, and not try to press him into our academic molds. I’ve noticed he easily avoids our misguided attempts to package him and sell him under our labels. From When All Else Fails…Read the Directions, by Bob Smith, published by Word Books, 1974, p. 50
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