Saturday, June 25, 2005
Good Message From All Directions
Sometimes the same message comes at you from two directions and in two very different styles, but the fact that it comes that way confirms it's importance. That happened yesterday.
SmartChristian had this to say in his usual direct and brief style:
Have you ever asked yourself why Jesus never gathered a congregation, appointed a board, built a church, started a program? Heck, why did He come 2000 years ago when all the wonderful tools of demographics and computers and media that we have today would have made His earthly ministry so much more impactful? Maybe you ought to be asking questions like that. And then maybe you ought to be patterning your ministry on the answers you receive.
SmartChristian had this to say in his usual direct and brief style:
I have been impacted by the fact that Mother Theresa focused totally on one person at a time even though there were throngs of poor, sick, and dieing people packing the streets of Calcutta. As her eyes penetrated a single soul, the rest of the world seemed to disappear. This seems to have been characteristic also of Jesus Galilean ministry.Allthings2all shares a very personal story about the source of the motto of her blog and says this in the first of her two concluding paragraphs
God does not measure things the way we often tend to. So often we quote numbers - this many people in a church, this many people became Christians, this many people subscribe to this ministry newletter, this many people have been impacted by this person...You feeling the theme here? Sheep's Crib has a post where he examines one of the reasons that theme is pretty important.
Have you ever asked yourself why Jesus never gathered a congregation, appointed a board, built a church, started a program? Heck, why did He come 2000 years ago when all the wonderful tools of demographics and computers and media that we have today would have made His earthly ministry so much more impactful? Maybe you ought to be asking questions like that. And then maybe you ought to be patterning your ministry on the answers you receive.
