Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Who am I missing?
This article really convicted me about being a spiritual leader and seeing the needs in the "crowd" around me. In this article the author talks about going to church and noticing the loneliness of the man in the row in front of him. He then opens up conversation with this man and ends up ministering to this man and his feelings of loneliness. This article convicted me because I know that the author's actions is something that I would not be comfortable doing. Yet as a spiritual leader we are called and expected to act in this way. We are to see the "needs" of the crowd around us and we can only see these needs if we are attuned to the voice of the Holy Spirit. I believe that connection to the Holy Spirit is what is lacking in most spiritual leaders lives and leads to them having an ineffective ministry. I remember one time I was at church and the person in the row in front of me smelled like they had not taken a shower in a week or so. I remember being so repulsed that this person would come to church in this condition. And I can remember the voice of the Holy Spirit speaking to me and convicting me for having such a judgmental attitude. I never had a conversation with that person like the author of this article did but I will forever wonder what would have happened if I had not had that judgmental attitude.
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Got this response! Drew can you share the link to the article?
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ReplyDeleteDrew, while this is a good article I think that it falls a little short in the leadership department, at least for a leader of a church. Don’t get me wrong, I think that every person in every church should here this story, because as Christians, this is what we are called to do. We are called to become the Body of Christ. We have a responsibility to be active participants in the Kingdom work and this article is a perfect example. A number of years ago it was suggested to me that if I really wanted to get to know the people of my church, I should move around in the pews and sit in different seats each week at different services. This was a great way to get to know many in the congregation throughout the three different services, however there was one drawback. Sometimes we received irritated looks because we had taken someone’s seat. Your article takes an opposite approach, but I think that you can see my point. It never ceases to amaze me how some people can get so attached to a certain seat. Wonder if they would give it up for Jesus?
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