Faithful ministry isn’t about avoiding hardship or protecting yourself, it is about raising up God’s work over your own comfort, operating for others instead of yourself, and taking the greatest risk of all: opening your heart wide towards others.
Paul is driven by the love of Christ to do the urgent mission of the Gospel. How are we driven? What drives us? What is our value?
All lives are temporary and all bodies groan with the pains of decay. Yet Christians are confident and humble at the hope of eternity.
Are you ruled by your Head or your heart? Are you more concerned about outward or the inward? Is your focus on the visible or the invisible? 2 Corinthians 4.13-18
The Ministry of the Spirit is the best, but it is by no means easy. Paul is to quote from 2 Corinthians 4, pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. How can this encourage us? How Read more
In Christ, we grow into maturity, not because we are able, but because He is in us and through His Spirit He is changing us from glory to glory. 2 Corinthians 3.7-14
We must hearts that care like Christ, a confidence that is rooted in Christ and a competence for things done with Christ.
