Bible Dictionary: Ministers: should be Disinterested

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2 Corinthians 12:14
Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not your's but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.
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1 Thessalonians 2:6
Nor of men sought we glory, neither of you, nor yet of others, when we might have been burdensome, as the apostles of Christ.
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Men Often Highly Esteem what God Abhors.
... All men agree in requiring that ministers should be really ... For example, they require
ministers to be benevolent ... for the sake of souls and from disinterested love ...
/.../finney/sermons on gospel themes/xxi men often highly esteem.htm

Regeneration.
... of the mind, or in a change from selfishness to disinterested benevolence; and. ... 6.
Ministers should lay themselves out, and press every consideration upon the ...
/.../finney/systematic theology/lecture xxviii regeneration.htm

Be Ye Therefore Perfect, Even as Your Father which is in Heaven is ...
... is naturally penurious and selfish, and reluctant to act in a disinterested manner:
he ... You see the necessity there is that ministers should be persons of deep ...
/.../finney/lectures to professing christians/be ye therefore perfect even 2.htm

Laymen Called to the Field of Missions.
... of enriching themselves, but with the disinterested intention of ... They should be men
who cheerfully throw themselves ... up the hands of Christ's ministers, and by ...
/.../dibble/thoughts on missions/chapter v laymen called to.htm

Sanctification.
... of the universe; or in other words, that it consists in disinterested benevolence ...
It is certainly of great importance that ministers should be definite in their ...
/.../finney/systematic theology/lecture xxxvii sanctification.htm

Sanctification.
... completeness, as a condition of abiding in a state of disinterested consecration
to God ... I do not wonder, that such professors and ministers should be totally in ...
/.../finney/systematic theology/lecture xxxix sanctification.htm

Justice and the Reason of Effects
... There should be a third, who is disinterested. ... different kind, do not follow the
majority of their ministers. ... so that the just and the strong should unite, and ...
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The Last Interview of Paul with the Elders of Ephesus.
... And to whom is it so fit, that Christians, whether ministers or people, should be
commended ... all, that I might gain the more." In this disinterested manner he ...
/.../dick/lectures on the acts of the apostles/lecture xxiv the last interview.htm

The First Great Deception.
... makes all nations drink.(939) That ministers of Christ ... Should we be surprised that,
with such instruction ... not acceptable to the corrupt; disinterested love does ...
/.../33 the first great deception.htm

The Ordinances of the Apostles, that There Might be no Contention ...
... of this, they appointed those [ministers] already mentioned ... asleep, other approved
men should succeed them ... in a humble, peaceable, and disinterested spirit, and ...
/.../chapter xliv the ordinances of the.htm