The most effective ministry of God is to be like Paul was.
Not exact matches
Prophetic
ministry is
most effective when it is engaged reluctantly, when it's difficult and even frightening, and when the speaker is compelled by a power that will not be denied.
Now, I believe in the teaching
ministry of the church, I usually preach 3 - 4 times a month, but the research tells us that groups are the
most effective tool a church has, and they still are not committed to it.
I have found the
most effective way to deal with fear is in the company of a compatible companion (someone other than my wife, she has her own
ministry) This is why the first disciples went out 2 × 2 and law enforcement people have a partner and soldiers have a buddy or wingman.
Though some of the splashier and more publicized experiments of the «wired church» attract the
most attention and concern,
most congregations that use computer technology are simply trying to make the
ministries in which they are already engaged more
effective, attractive and applicable to the lives of the people they serve, especially the young, for whom these technologies are as familiar a part of everyday life as using the telephone — a mobile unit, that is.
Though some of the splashier and more publicized experiments of the «wired church» attract the
most attention and concern,
most congregations that use computer technology are simply trying to make the
ministries in which they are already engaged more
effective, attractive and applicable to the lives of the people they serve.
Theologians such as Joseph C. Hough have since insisted that the congregation needs to be analyzed «in the light of the universal theological dialogue in the church about the mission and
ministry of the church as the body of Christ in the world» (in Dudley, Building
Effective Ministry, 112), but
most theological studies of the church since 1970 do not analyze the local church.
Even though I did not receive teaching from a Church setting but rather from a marketplace
ministry setting where they taught us «Externally Focused Church, Organic Church, which was really a good thing (new wine skin initiatives) but when we implemented and embraced it, we found that its not quite
effective and in the end the leaders abandoned the project and
most of us were in the dark on what is the next good program or system to follow.
The spirit in the
ministry today appears to be to achieve as full a grasp of gospel and world as possible and to achieve the
most effective available application of the one to the other.
operational in his
ministry, he discovers that the
most effective way of meeting the personality needs of the majority of his flock is through vital activities and program.