http://www.mattglover.com/wordpress/wordpress/2006/09/28/a-sad-bit-of-excellence/ Thoughts from Australian cartoonist and pastor, Matt Glover Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:00:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 http://www.mattglover.com/wordpress/wordpress/2006/09/28/a-sad-bit-of-excellence/#comment-10507 Wren Thu, 28 Sep 2006 21:56:33 +0000 http://www.mattglover.com/wordpress/wordpress/2006/09/28/a-sad-bit-of-excellence/#comment-10507 I like your blog. Hello from Montreal, Canada...my name is Wren. I have a discussion forum here... http://z6.invisionfree.com/denominations Please know that you are very welcome to register and participate anytime. I like your blog.
Hello from Montreal, Canada…my name is Wren.
I have a discussion forum here…
http://z6.invisionfree.com/denominations
Please know that you are very welcome to register and participate anytime.

]]> http://www.mattglover.com/wordpress/wordpress/2006/09/28/a-sad-bit-of-excellence/#comment-10506 churchpundit Thu, 28 Sep 2006 18:36:32 +0000 http://www.mattglover.com/wordpress/wordpress/2006/09/28/a-sad-bit-of-excellence/#comment-10506 Matt: I've discovered, like you, the downside of discipling people. When they rise up in their ministry and calling, they often have to leave to fulfill it. We've seen it over and over again. It is a bitter-sweet thing, and there's no way around it. Dan is right... we are to live godly lives of excellence. But there is not only gain, but pain in that when we have to separate from each other, even if only for a time. I just read yesterday in Oswald Chambers, My Utmost For His Highest, "This man did not want to disappoint Jesus, nor to hurt his father. We put sensitive loyalty to relatives in place of loyalty to Jesus Christ and Jesus has to take the last place. In a conflict of loyalty, obey Jesus Christ at all costs." Counts for friends too. Thus spoke churchpundit! Matt: I’ve discovered, like you, the downside of discipling people. When they rise up in their ministry and calling, they often have to leave to fulfill it. We’ve seen it over and over again. It is a bitter-sweet thing, and there’s no way around it. Dan is right… we are to live godly lives of excellence. But there is not only gain, but pain in that when we have to separate from each other, even if only for a time. I just read yesterday in Oswald Chambers, My Utmost For His Highest, “This man did not want to disappoint Jesus, nor to hurt his father. We put sensitive loyalty to relatives in place of loyalty to Jesus Christ and Jesus has to take the last place. In a conflict of loyalty, obey Jesus Christ at all costs.” Counts for friends too. Thus spoke churchpundit!

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