I am not a fan of my own preaching. Preaching is very personal, very vulnerable. I would liken it to being naked in public. Now, there's a mental image you have to live with!
Nevertheless, the Holy Spirit did give me a powerful illustration this past Sunday. There was a time in our church's past that we should have gone into a neighboring town to start a Sunday School rather than busing the kids 30 miles round trip to attend ours. But we didn't. Not only did the opportunity to expand ministry die, but so did the van route.
After the sermon one of our church leaders pointed out that becoming indigenous in the local towns should be approached as a less prideful option, because ministry isn't about everything being done on property. Ministry is about the Cross, the Kingdom and the church. These things aren't contradictory, they work in tandem.
What if we asked the question: What do we do to present the Cross, seeing the Kingdom expand and the local church blessed?
Beyond that we could subscribe to the quote by Reagan, "It's amazing what you can accomplish if you don't care who gets the credit."
What in the name of the Cross, Kingdom and church should we be doing and could be doing if we didn't care who got the credit and feared God more than man?
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