Ministry

Revival and Reformation Grace in Weakness When Ministry Demands More Than Competence By Benjamin Kip Zernang Benjamin Kip Zernang, Master of Arts in Education, is a Field Director for ASAP Ministries, residing in Muak Lek, Suraburi, Thailand.

In Christian ministry, competence is often treated as a spiritual virtue.

We value effectiveness, clarity, growth metrics and visible results.

Look at how strongly he is reacting to error in the church.

What should that say to us as well? Yes, and if we think about the church today, our church today, right? I was listening to a podcast from Ministry Magazine and they were saying about this, about the relationship we have to identify ourselves with our church.

We like to say the church, but it's my church, it's our church, right? But many times we can get into a way of spiritual elitism, thinking we have the truth.

Oh, we have the light.

Editorial The Church is My Church by Geoffrey O'Brown Geoffrey O'Brown, who holds a doctoral degree, is the Associate Editor of Ministry and Associate Ministerial Secretary of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States.

Sometimes ministry receives manuscript submissions providing principles of what the church should do to grow bigger or care deeper or love better.

I ask the author, Have you done this? Have you tried these principles in your local church? If you have, how are they working for you? If they haven't, why not? Instead of saying what the church should do, pastors may be in a position to influence what my church can do.