Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Apr 13, 2011
                
                
                
                    MINISTRY: A CHARACTER PROFESSION
Ministry is a character profession. To put it bluntly, you can sleep around and still be a good brain surgeon. You can cheat on your mate and have little trouble continuing to practice law. Apparently, it is no problem to stay in politics and plagiarize. You can be
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 3, 2006
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    A November Gallup Poll asked Americans to rate the honesty and ethical standards of professions. The top six rated professions are: nurses (82%), pharmacists (67%), medical doctors (65%), high school teachers (64%), policemen (61%), and clergy (54%).
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 13, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Hypocritically, professing belief, performing rote rituals, calling oneself a member of a religion without attempting to follow holy prescriptions, participating in church … with a “social” country-club fervor – these can all be an evasion of holy duty, yet another form of idolatry, as practicing
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    "Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed, there are many rewards; if you disgrace
                    
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                    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Aug 23, 2008
                
                
                
                    “If I profess with the loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the word of God except precisely that little point which the world and the Devil are at that point attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Christ. Where the battle rages, there the
                    
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                    Contributed by Martin Wiles on May 9, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Emperor Julian of Rome professed Christianity in his early years of power but later turned savagely against Christians and vowed to exterminate them. One day as a Roman soldier was whipping a Christian, Julian the Apostate, as he became known, said, ’ Where is your Carpenter of Nazareth now?’ The
                    
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                    Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Jan 24, 2010
                
                
                
                    TO MANY  PROFESSING CHRISTIANS  LEAVE CHRIST AND OUR CHURCHES FOR WHAT? FOR ANYTHING AT ALL THAT THIS WORLD HAS TO OFFER? IS LIKE  BEING DUPED  BY A DODGY CAR SALESMAN INTO TRADING  IN YOUR  TOP OF THE RANGE ROLLS ROYCE  FOR A  CLAPPED OUT  ROBIN  RELIANT, YOU WERE PROMISED  SO MUCH  FROM THE
                    
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                    Contributed by Dean O'bryan on Jul 2, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Benjamin Franklin, who never professed to be a Christian, still understood how excellent and valuable the Bible is.  According to one story, he was in Paris, representing the new American Republic.  Franklin was dismayed to hear supposedly educated Frenchmen ridiculing the Bible.  Some even
                    
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                    Contributed by Dale  Pilgrim on Jan 19, 2009
                
                
                
                    "It is not knowledge…nor great profession…nor doing many things...nor zeal for certain matters in religion..." He continues that holiness is not "morality and outward respectability of conduct…nor taking pleasure in hearing preachers...nor keeping company with godly people...These things
                    
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