Ministry can be an exciting adventure. This weekend will be a prime example. Saturday we are participating in a clothing giveaway/outreach event in downtown Jacksonville. We are just one of five churches working together to encourage this neighborhood. I'm curious to see all the ways God will reveal Himself on that day. Sunday is Mother's Day and I am pumped about the message. We will be looking at Hannah and the struggle she had in I Samuel 1. We are also having two baby dedications Sunday. That ROCKS!!!!
But even though things are happening and God is moving and we are trying our best to follow Him...it is easy to get distracted from my core purpose as a believer and a pastor. Yesterday, I revisited a book I've had for a long time. "The Disciple-making Pastor" by Bill Hull. That's it. I am commissioned to go and make disciples.
It's not that outreach and preaching are bad things but if the goal is anything but the gospel and making disciples then they become just something else to "do". Jesus called us to "be" disciple-makers.
I am called to "be" a disciple-making pastor. What does that look like? We'll visit that one a little later.
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