Good News For Everyone: Tom Shanklin Ministries Podcast

Tom sharing this message at Holy Life Tabernacle Church Pastors' Conference. All of us need mercy … including preachers. Mercy is required because we all have missed God, failed, fallen, and broken His commandments. When we recognize our failure, we can easily become discouraged. We may think: I'll never be good enough. I'll never measure up. We look at our failures and wonder, "How can God ever use me?" But what we don't realize is that it's not about us, it's about God's grace and His ability to take people who have failed and use them for His glory. Think about the great heroes of faith. Abraham, Moses, Peter, and Paul, for example, were all people who failed miserably. And yet they became world changers. For ministers of the Gospel, the battle in the mind can be intense, when we recognize that our speech and actions affect only us, but also those under our care. James says, "‭My brothers, not many of you should become teachers, knowing that we shall receive the greater judgment.‭ ‭We all err in man