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Ministries start with a minister

I have said for a long time that any ministry the church gets involved in starts and runs with having someone who is called to lead that ministry. Too often we sit in committees seeing needs (we can all do that) and then insisting we as a church address them. This usually results in new committees and already hard pressed people undertaking something that they are only doing out of duty (or because a persuasive Clergy person insisted they should – and they don’t like letting the Vicar down).

This article by Rick Warren (founder and senior pastor of Saddleback Church – a church now so big I’ve lost track of its size) says what I try to say very well:

http://pastors.com/never-start-a-ministry-without-a-minister/

Let’s let God do the leading for a change.

P.S. It is one of my bugbears about meetings that people turn up and think they are being helpful by making suggestions for all the things others (especially the clergy) should be doing. Sometimes God does prompt us in this way but my experience tells me that He usually doesn’t. We can all come up with a list of things we could do (I am often overwhelmed by the opportunities I see around us) the real work is in listening to and supporting those who feel called to undertake a particular work.

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