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“When was the last time we laughed like that as a family?” I asked myself as we were on our way to a small family get away during spring break. The church calendar had been non-stop from Thanksgiving to Easter Sunday; the kid’s sports program had us running every night of the week from basketball to volleyball to gymnastics. It seemed as if there were not enough hours in the day or enough days in the week. We were always exhausted. Family dinners were infrequent because of the differences in our schedules. We rarely saw each other. We were like ships passing in the night.
One night after an exhausting day my wife and I were lying in bed and we realized that the hectic pace of our calendar was taking its toll not only on us, but it was clearly taking its toll on our children. Living in a pastor’s home is a challenge and oftentimes pastor’s kids bear the weight of the responsibility just as much as their parents.
I am sure if you are in ministry and you are reading this you have felt the same way I did. The difficult pace of ministry can have a negative effect on several areas of your life. It affects your health, your marriage, and it affects your family. So that night we
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I’m not gonna lie, when I’m doing my reading plan, I tend to skim through Leviticus & Numbers. So, as I was skimming the other day something caught my eye, because it happened more than once. Just to catch you up on the story, Moses and the children of Israel haven’t been out in the desert that long. God has just given His law and the people are still digesting everything that God has instructed. On 2 different occasions something happens with the people and they’re not sure what to do.
Numbers 15:32-35
While the Israelites were in the wilderness, a man was found gathering wood on the Sabbath day. Those who found him gathering wood brought him to Moses and Aaron and the whole assembly, and they kept him in custody, because it was not clear what should be done to him.
God had just given the laws concerning the Passover and it happened again…
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But some of them could not celebrate the Passover on that day because they were ceremonially unclean on account of a dead body. So they came to Moses and Aaron that same day and said to Moses, "We have become unclean because of a dead body, but why should we be kept from presenting the Lord's offering with the
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If your greatest ministry takes place from a stage on Sundays you’ve missed the point! Sure, you have a platform to proclaim the Gospel to a group of people, but shouldn’t your ministry extend beyond that?
I once walked into the dressing room of a Grammy award winning worship leader/singer who was exhorting his band with these words,
Let’s not just be about the stage tonight. Many people are found worthy of the stage, but let us be found worthy of the altar. Before you are a performer or worship leader, you must be a worshiper.
Think about that for a moment. He was telling a group of people whose literal job it was to lead people in worship to first find themselves in private worship to The Father…then help others find their way to Him too.
Even beyond that though, I hope my ministry is best defined by what I do outside of Sunday morning. I want to impact my wife, my children, my neighbors, my co-workers, and strangers with the Gospel and It’s telling through the way I live. Pastor Judah Smith quotes his dad who said, “Don’t let your preaching get better than your living.”
So, Pastor:
- What does your life outside of Sunday say to the world around you about the
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