Do you want to see the hands of missionaries in action? One of the new and exciting ways to do that is to view many missions videos online.
Check out the new MinistryTube Directory - a blog directory of missions/ministries on YouTube.
You can see missionaries in action and get a better idea of what it takes to do missions today.
On the Podcast today we are talking about hands that are vitally connected with the SOURCE. What do we mean? It is hands that are linked in relationship to God.
If you as a missionary are linked to God in a growing relationship, then you will be equipped with the love and wisdom necessary to minister. Without that Paul says that our actions are no more than that.
So many missionaries look back on their service and ask, "Was that all there was?" What a tragedy!!!
Only as we are connected to God in a real way and living a life of love for others will real missions occur.
Are you connected to the SOURCE? What are you learning about how to love others through your missionary service?
Living sacrificially is an incredible challenge.
In the podcast this week we talk about the fact that our culture today doesn't value or promote anything but fulfilling our dreams.
So the idea that I have to come to missions openhanded is a strange one. What does that mean? Well, it means that when you get to your place of ministry, you have to be ready for what God will ask you to do. It might be exactly as you pictured it . . . but take it from me, it usually isn't.
Instead you need to be ready to sacrifice your preconcieved ideas of what your ministry impact will be and allow God to guide you and direct you.
That doesn't mean you don't plan or follow through on what you have said you are going to do. But it does mean that you always need to run your plans and your aims through a spiritual filter and confirm what God might want you to be doing for HIS KINGDOM.
How have you sacrificed for God's Kingdom?
One of the realities in missions is connecting with churches and making lasting relationships. Well, that meant one thing 50 years ago, but means something very different today.
Understanding church marketing will help you as a missionary to connect with churches who are using marketing to make their ministry more effective.
There is a new book called Church Marketing 101 that is excellent. Check it out today.
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"All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men's sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore Christ's ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us."
2 Corinthians 5:18-20 (NIV)
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