nothing new in ministry
Posted by chuck maxwell on June 5th, 2009 filed in Chuck's blogThings really haven’t changed much since I began working in church as a youth minister the summer of 1978. When we would have an event like white water rafting or a retreat to the beach, kids would come out of the woodwork. But if we had a time for some serious disicpleship, we would have 2, or on a good day, 4. Even today, promoting and hosting a time to come together to pray for our neighborhood or other aspects of our church community or spiritual development, will not draw a very big crowd compared to Sunday morning. As long as I have been in church, it has been that way. The deeper the commitment required, the fewer there are willing to adjust for it. I hate to get into why I think that is. I get convicted. But it just ought not to be that way!
June 17th, 2009 at 6:47 am
Just wondering, are these (those who love rafting or whatever and never show to pray or go deeper) that will be surprised and say, “Lord, Lord . . and He will say, depart from me I never knew you.” ? I guess that’s why the Apostle Paul told the Corinthian believers to “test” themselves to make sure they were in the faith. Testing, 1, 2, 3.