Sometimes we forget what ministry is about.

Sometimes we think that it’s about…

Programs.
Strategy.
Tactics.
Buildings.
Seats.
Music.
Web Sites.
Social Networking.
Tradition.
Community Events.
Sermons.
Podcasts.
Books.
Blogs.
Ourselves.

We think that the things we use to accomplish ministry are the point of ministry. This is not true.

The point of ministry is to bring Christ to a hurting world. We have the remedy, it is our job to bring it to the broken and bruised. To carry light into the darkest parts of the world.

The tools to accomplish this should never become the point of ministry. The means to the end are not the end in themselves.

I know I sometimes allow myself to make some of these tools into the point. Particularly the “cool” web stuff that I get to do at work. But then I encounter someone or hear a story about someone whose life was changed so drastically by the rescue that God provides, and it brings me back to the real point.