Ministry and Character

Wine_grapes03 Once we have embarked upon a life of ministry, we will be confronted with agonizing and persistent questions like “How am I doing?” and “How will I know how I’m doing?” At the unconscious (and conscious) levels, we begin flailing about for a way to answer those questions. One of the keys to the rest of your life as a minister is to find a way to answer them. What test will you use? Because many of our everyday practices and business models operate on the premise of success, bottom lines, profits, and assets, we are prone to gauge ministerial effectiveness in the same way. How do we measure how well we are doing in ministry? Is it by mere growth in numbers or giving, or by a faithfulness divorced from all results?

by Timothy Keller

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