What Are You Going to Do?
I was asked today a searching question: What are you going to do?
My friend was referring to the struggles of pastoring a church in a declining neighborhood, hosting sevceral thriving ministries/congregations, collecting less and less financial help as the bills rise, and doing the work of a mission center while living the life of a small congregation.
Here is our situation: We have a tiny church doing great work, influencing the city, ministering to many people, and struggling to survive.
Every week, we touch lives - lives that do not bring in the resources to support the ministry, lives that are not ready for leadership at the level we need.
What are we going to do?
Well, we seem to have some orders in place and, I suppose, until they change, we will keep following them.
My friend was referring to the struggles of pastoring a church in a declining neighborhood, hosting sevceral thriving ministries/congregations, collecting less and less financial help as the bills rise, and doing the work of a mission center while living the life of a small congregation.
Here is our situation: We have a tiny church doing great work, influencing the city, ministering to many people, and struggling to survive.
Every week, we touch lives - lives that do not bring in the resources to support the ministry, lives that are not ready for leadership at the level we need.
What are we going to do?
Well, we seem to have some orders in place and, I suppose, until they change, we will keep following them.
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