Minister

Y'all all right? My wife always tells me, she said, man, every time you go up there to minister, everybody's just like...

I'm like, I don't know.

I think everybody had different temperaments, right? I think on Passover come up, everybody's giggling.

When I come, everybody's like...

Everybody's temperament's different.

So we're here today to talk about becoming the pastor's wife.

Listen to this really bold subtitle, How Marriage Replaced Ordination as Woman's Path to Ministry.

What? in the world.

Okay, so Beth Allison Barr is a historian.

Beth Allison Barr.

I could talk to you all day.

If you don't have her book, Becoming the Pastor's Wife, How Marriage Replaced Ordination as a Woman's Path to Ministry, she has the receipts, friends.

Check it out.

Amazing.

So you teach at a college? A, a Christian college?

A Christian college, yes.

Mm-hmm.

Amazing.

But it took God opening his eyes.

It, you know- Mm-hmm ...

he was persecuting Christians, killing Christians first.

Yeah, that's it, prophet.

I got another question for you.

One of the biggest questions Christians wrestle with is hearing God's voice.

How does someone distinguish between the Holy Spirit, their own thoughts and emotions, and something that isn't from God?

First and foremost, there's one thing people should try as much as possible to understand, and it will help.

I want to get this cleared up.

I've heard people say this.

Some Christians would challenge your title directly and say, how can you call yourself a prophet today when Scripture describes the apostles and the prophets of the early church as foundational? Now, I know there's this But some people don't think that.

Mm

... uh, Christian ministers.

I spoke to rabbis.

I was trying to get as much of a concrete thought pattern on what is causing this, and I came up with six conditions.