Where do I begin???
Looking through my posts and wrestiling with what the Lord has been showing me has brought me to a new place in ministry. I think that this transition and growth have been good. It has left me with quite a few questions and slowly but surely through prayer and the counsel of others the answers are coming. Read the rest of this entry »
Well again some very stimulating discussion going on at the SMP. Church plans, plans of attack, vision statements, policies and standards. Really great stuff, but without the calling it is all rubbish. I know the guys at the SMP know this but do we as the guys who assist them. Do we see people for the potential we want for them or for where they are in Christ? Are we looking for help so desperately that we will throw anyone with an inkling of potential at one of our ministries. I know that we don’t have crystal balls or that everyone can be fooled, but that doesn’t excuse us from our responsiblity. If they aren’t who we thought they were then we pray. I think we continue as we have been and those that don’t show the call, or quite get it we pray for them. We pray with a fervency like nothing else, and either the Lord will grow them deeper or cut them off. I nor you are the Holy Spirit; ours is to follow, serve, and to do so without abandon. When we see it like that I think we realize that our issue is usually one of submission and not one of qualification.
Ministry, what a strange term. Check out some of Googles definitions:
