Wednesday, September 14, 2005
Separate God from your ministry.
I think to be truly successful in ministry we need to separate God from our ministries. Now I know that sounds really, really wrong, maybe even heresy, but it's all about priorities. Because as ministers, our work is so connected to God, the line between work and God can become very, very blurry. Of course we can never succeed in ministry without God, but if we allow that line to come too blurry we can allow our lives to fall way out of balance. God is our number one priority, ministry can never be more than number three if it moves into that second place, the one where family lives or, God forbid, number one we are destined to fail.
I think to be truly successful in ministry we need to separate God from our ministries. Now I know that sounds really, really wrong, maybe even heresy, but it's all about priorities. Because as ministers, our work is so connected to God, the line between work and God can become very, very blurry. Of course we can never succeed in ministry without God, but if we allow that line to come too blurry we can allow our lives to fall way out of balance. God is our number one priority, ministry can never be more than number three if it moves into that second place, the one where family lives or, God forbid, number one we are destined to fail.
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