The Call of Christ to the Ministry - Part 1 — Shane Idleman

The message is the call of Christ to the ministry and it's really part two of last week's message that I didn't get through. Because of just too many me talking up here too much. So my daughter's in here I see and she says I'm boring every time so don't say that tonight.

Okay, daddy's not gonna be boring. But I know little kids have a different view. Anyway, the power of Christ we left off last week the power of Christ over the demonic realm. The power of Christ over Satan.

Christ’s Authority Over the Demonic Realm

The power of Christ pretty much over everything in our lives. How does Christ? Exhibit that power in our lives to conquer certain areas. So if you didn't see that message go view it. It's on our website.

Now where I left off and I don't want to just kind of just throw these notes away I want to talk to you about Where we left off and looking at a genuine work of the Holy Spirit a genuine work of the Holy Spirit.

Cannot go outside the bounds of God's character. So anytime you wonder okay is the Holy Spirit in that did the Holy Spirit the Holy Spirit cannot go outside the bounds of God's Character and also as we see in it is written in his revealed word.

So what does that look like if you see something happening with worship or or demonic realm that cannot go outside the? Bounds of God's character. I didn't say it can't go outside the bounds of preference because it will.

Many type many people prefer different things and we have to be careful in this area of preference. Because sometimes we use it as a gauge on which to measure Spirituality and other people why prefer this or I prefer that so preferences.

We have to distinguish preferences from truth when it comes to this area. I like what Martin Lloyd-Jones said. We should never never interpret scripture in the light of our experience but rather interpret our experiences in the penetrating light of scripture and really what what I'm Doing now as I'm talking about last week's message we talked about the demonic realm and we talked about you know bizarre things happening and and sometimes people say I just felt a certain way or just pray for this feeling or you know I get this feeling or even those In the New Age movement have feelings of euphoria in this this the state of ecstasy.

So that's why you have to be very careful. And again, we should never interpret scripture in the light of our experiences. But interpret our experiences in the light of scripture in other words if I somebody has an experience.

We don't interpret the Bible based on that experience. Well, we need to change this. We need to take out this. It doesn't say this they get they're acting weird. I know they're acting weird Shane. Don't quench and grieve the Spirit of God.

You know, let's use this experience to interpret scripture where scripture says the opposite this is our gauge by which we interpret our experiences and Emotions our emotions are primarily a vehicle for expression.

They're not a gauge for truth. So think about that our emotions are a vehicle for expressing. When your first baby was born or your second or your third or your fourth when you're at the hospital. There's a little bit of emotions there, right?

I hope or on your wedding day or when your favorite team wins I mean there's emotions there. So emotions are a Vehicle for expressing ourselves and and people sometimes say oh, it's just emotional and and sometimes I want to jump up and down say good Good.

We need some emotions in the church. Sometimes Where where why is everybody excited when their favorite team wins or we're excited about this but church we have to come. We can't get emotional. We can't get to we can't just we got it.

You know just do this and don't get emotional. God God given emotions are good. He gave us those emotions. I thank God. We're not puppets. Don't feel anything don't care. I mean, that's why when you feel something emotional.

It's a good thing or it can be as long as we gauge it by Scripture now. Also just feeling emotional doesn't necessarily mean it's a good thing. You can feel emotional when they sing the Pledge of Allegiance right or Star-Spangled Banner.

I get emotional. But we don't drape the cross with the flag. You know, so motions emotions are not a gauge for truth. In other words many people are especially you're gonna see this in our culture day all these hot-button issues.

That you see in the paper, you know I won't mention all them right now, but people get real emotional about that and they use that as a gauge for truth. Sometimes well, I feel this way or I was born this way or why don't we just do this and I feel I feel and that Begins to gauge everything and then what comes on the scene is relativism, right?

Everything is relative based on how I Feel. What's the old logo or the old motto if it feels good? Yeah, if it feels good do it the Bible says if it feels good check yourself at the door. Look in Scripture doesn't line up with Scripture because if it feels good do it is not necessarily something that's biblical.

So again, that's where I left off last week. I don't want to spend too much time on that. But I like what Jonathan Edwards said and as you know many some of you know. He was he was one of the primary theologians during the Great Awakening in our country in the 1700s and I like to read all about the revivals and the awakenings and the work of the Holy Spirit and and all these things that empowering the church and the church is just thriving and growing and bars are closing down and and Everything is gel gels are empty.

And why is this. Because when the Spirit of God moves. Lives are radically changed and he after studying revival. He noted five things that I think think are important. Number one. When there's an experience and God awakening his people it elevates the truth.

Marks of a Genuine Work of the Holy Spirit

The truth is elevated not minimized. The truth is looked to not avoided. And a lot of times in these experience oriented movements, and this is really more of a these points I'm bringing out are more tied in with last week, but I didn't want to just throw them in the trash.

Because anytime the Holy Spirit is moving truth will be elevated. Not put to the side not trampled on and when we say let's bring out the truth that people say, oh, no. Let's put that aside. We don't need that you bunch of Bible thumpers, you know.

We got to be open to new things and new, you know, be careful there. Number two Christ is exalted not the person not the ministry. Not this not that not Christ is exalted. Satan is opposed. Number four points people to the scriptures and it results in a love for God and others.

That's a true work of the Holy Spirit. So a lot of times you'll see maybe some bizarre thing happen in some churches just bizarre. It's like wow, that is that's that's just weird. What am I and of course they say?

Well, you're just quenching and grieving the Spirit of God, you know, just got to be open if it's odd. It's God anything goes right? Well, not necessarily. If the people leaving there Don't experience God about the truth isn't elevated Christ isn't magnified that Satan is opposed.

They don't have a true or genuine love for God in his word than it was just a circus environment. It was just it was just an entertainment so we have to gauge our emotions off of truth why. Because Jeremiah said the heart is deceitful and Desperately wicked who can know it for I the Lord.

I judge the heart I judge the mind and I give every man according to his ways according to his doings and. And that's interesting. I thought about that scripture. He Scriptures right on I mean the heart is deceitful and desperately wicked.

We have something inside of us. That is hell-bent on leaving God that is desperately wicked if it was given full reign. Oh, man. Wow if it was given full reign. That's why we have to put restraints on it guard our heart for it's a wellspring of life guard your mind your affections.

You have to guard these things as a soldier doing battle. Because the heart left to itself is desperately wicked. So the Word of God pulls it back prayer pulls it back worship pulls it back. So that's why I encourage people all the time pray and worship.

Well, I don't like to do. I just want to sit there and wait for to your message. No, no, you don't get it. That's why nothing's changing. It's in that prayer and worship that the heart is guarded that the heart is protected because you're putting it in submission to Christ.

It's very healthy. So then we left off right here chapter 9 of Matthew verse 35. Chapter 9 verse 35 the compassion of Jesus then Jesus went about all the cities and villages teaching in their synagogues.

Preaching the gospel of the kingdom and healing every sickness and every disease among the people. But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion for them because they were wearied scattered.

Like sheep having no shepherd. You know, I want to remind everybody tonight that Jesus is still in the business of compassion. I believe that he is still moved with compassion for his people. You're not following some shepherd who's given up on his flock and has moved to a different city.

This is a shepherd who we bow to who we trust who we worship that has compassion on his people. Remember what I caught a few weeks ago. God had compassion on his people. That's why he sent his messengers.

That's why he sends his messengers. That's why he sends difficult messages to his people because he has compassion on them and on his dwelling place. But they mocked his messengers despised his word and scoffed at his prophets until the anger of the Lord arose against his own people.

But let's not forget what started that because he had compassion on his people. So we serve a Jesus who still has compassion on his people and it's interesting I pulled three things from this this part of the text even though it's real brief here Jesus went along teaching and preaching and healing and I believe that's three aspects of ministry.

You'll always see. Because we have to teach us how to live. That's vitally important teach us how to live. But then you have to preach so people wake up from their spiritual slumber. You have to teach and you have to preach and you don't want to have an unhealthy balance there because what will happen?

They'll either gravitate all towards preaching and emotionalism or they'll gravitate just toward towards teaching they'll become modern-day Pharisees and nothing changes and. Then we see the third aspect here is healing.

Jesus went along healing and how does that apply to us? Well in many ways, this is a helps ministry. I believe there are people in this church even in this valley all over that are in desperate need of help in all these areas mentally physically emotionally and spiritually so as Christians, that's what we should go around doing teaching and Preaching sometimes awakening be not like what I do something necessarily, but you can awaken people say listen.

You're on a collision close course to the disaster. You need to wake up. Here's what the Bible says and then we come alongside and we help them. We minister to him. That's what ministry is. Sometimes I think we hear the word ministry.

We think oh, I'll just go and do that. But ministry encompasses many different items and that's what I want to talk about tonight. On this area of teaching and healing the funny thing is preaching. We often don't see Jesus as a preacher, do we?

No, no, no, you won't see him as that but that's he said I came to preach the gospel Jesus said for this very reason I have come to preach. Jesus came to awaken his people and he hates he hates the sin.

He sees in us. Have you ever lost anybody to cancer? You hate that cancer right and That's why he we hate the sin and that we see in people a lot of times. You know the little cliche love the sin or hate the sin, you know, love the sinner hate the sin.

It can become a cliche. I know but it's powerful truth. We're to love the sinner, but we to hate or to hate the sin that's destroying families. It's destroying our nation. It's destroying the church is destroying the truth.

That's why that's why we get a lot of negative feedback. Right when we preach the truth because they don't like to hear that part of it and Jesus is a preacher. It's really preaching and that within this and the word here is to proclaim.

He's proclaiming the good news I've come to set the captive at free to proclaim and when you proclaim it's not just sitting there going through your Bible. Sometimes it's it's awakening people and it's getting emotional and stirring and convicting.

I just had this to me happen to me this week I'm taking my little you know a dog on a walk in the desert and I let him off the leash. And next thing I hear it's right. He's about 10. Oh Toby that's a rattlesnake.

Oh get over here. Am I just gonna come you might want to you know, well, I'll just wait. You know, is that what I'm gonna do? Why? Because there's danger. There's danger come get over here get over here.

I'm not coming to you. There's a rattlesnake right between us. I can see it. I can see it coiled up someone come over here get over here now. Stop playing with the snake get over here get over here get over here now.

Shane that's me. That's loud, right? I have to gauge it because of the danger between us. That's all preaching is it's emotional because they see the danger between the pulpit and the pew don't go there.

That leads to abyss that leads to hell that leads to destruction that leads to divorce that leads to addiction that leads to jail. That leads and you fill in the blank. So Christ was a wonderful preacher calling the people back to him.

He would preach and then he would sit and teach and he would heal. That's powerful ministry. Sometimes we get caught up on just one of those and then what happens when we begin to judge. Right, well, why don't they do this and why don't they do this and that that judgmentalism comes in.

Preaching Truth With Love

I Like what Robert Murray McShane? He said he died at 29. But he's one of Scotland's most anointed preachers hunt preacher hundreds of years ago. He spent a lot of time in the prayer closet and fasting and just he died at an early age.

But he it was a lot of different record different biographies and things record that people would begin weeping when he even stepped to the pulpit. Just that powerful anointing spending time with God and he people would just break under his presence and in Scotland.

Experienced a powerful move of God. He said most of God's people are content to be saved from the hell that is without. They are not so anxious to be saved from the hell that is within. And I ponder that because that is true.

We're content. I'm not going to hell. I got my out of my out of jail my out of hell free card right here monopoly. I'm good now, but the hell within Needs to be dealt with and that's one aspect where preaching comes in.

When Christ preach when I preach when preach that's what we deal with the hell that's within. Because it doesn't want to give up its stronghold easily. It's got to be awakened as well. You've got to go right to the heart and that's one thing teaching does not do as much as I love teaching.

I listen to Chuck Smith's teaching on the Bible all 700 tapes took me a year and a half. I love teaching. I got MacArthur's teaching. I've got David Jeremiah's teaching. I've got Alistair Bakes teaching.

I love teaching but there comes a time when you need to preach. When teaching just isn't gonna cut it when you've got to wake in the church up. That's where preaching comes in. It's like God's brings in a different.

Okay, you've. We've been So taught it's pathetic. We've got Bible apps all over our phones. We've got commentaries that underground churches in China and Egypt and Afghans. They don't even own a Bible and we're just we're full of teaching.

We're so full of teaching we like to argue about every little nuance of this the rapture and this and women and ministry and the gifts of the Spirit and We want just art about worship. Oh lord. Don't get me started on the worship wars.

The old hymns the new hymns, why are they standing? Why are they sitting? Why are they raising their hands? Why aren't they raising their hands? Why are your services? So charismatic? Why aren't they so charismatic when you just worship?

Why I don't like those songs. I don't know those songs. I don't it just goes on and on and on. We should just thank God that we're able to worship him. Thank God. No, don't get me wrong. I love deep theological songs in the old hymns.

But also love another new oceans by Hillsong, I mean that's powerful songs that that we're worshiping God. So just be very careful in this area that we can be so well taught that we become a Pharisee.

I'll just call it like it is because the Pharisees were the most religious people of their day and I see it all the time. Do you want to know why because I can drift on the Pharisee side real easy. It's not too hard for me to drift on the Pharisee side real easy.

Just yesterday. We're at a party for my mom's 70th anniversary and friends from where it weren't from into town and They said oh Shane. I got to give you two people. You got to listen to on there on the TV and they gave me their names.

I won't give you your names and they're not you know, they're not heretical, but they're not. Well, we'll leave it at that right what I would be watching listening so in my mind. Oh, let me tell you about do you know the you know?

I'm already have an argument to just put down everything that they just were so excited about. So instead of oh, thank you. I'll check. Thank you. Just listen now I'm not talking about they're not dangerous teachers and warning people but just preference and I just you know certain people that I don't you know care to endorse and different things, but in my mind I'm already going to that Pharisee mode.

It's already getting ready. Boom. Because it can it can happen very easily. So we have to be careful because we have so much truth we have that our nation is have so much Bible that we're forgetting the Bible that were that we've been reading and Actually, I know a lot of you will agree with this that the church as a whole is drifting from the Bible.

The nation we're drifting from the Bible. I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about true Bible believing Christians. We're so fat on the Word of God that now we need to start doing some exercise. We need to start using what's inside of us.

That's all calories are you know that right calories are just energy I haven't expended yet. I haven't used yet. And If they're not used, where do they go? Everywhere same thing with the Word of God. I've got all this energy all this knowledge, but Not gonna do anything with it.

Well that turns into pride and that turns into arrogance and that turns into thinking we're super spiritual. We don't need to help people and God needs me really bad. God doesn't need us really bad. He chooses to use us for his glory also, I think I'm gonna Every week or to do a recommended resource of a book.

I'm reading on a certain topic. It'll help and this is a great one on this area of Serving God it's called on being a servant of God by Warren Wearsby on being a servant of God. I just went through it again this week and a lot of great things.

About I mean, he's had the 45 years in ministry. So I would encourage you to get that book. You can get it online. I think Everywhere pretty much where it's available everywhere. But Robert Murray McShaney also said this a man who loves you the most is the man who tells you the most truth about yourself.

The person who loves you the most is the person who's gonna tell you the most truth about yourself. So it falls into this preaching again. Jesus would tell us the truth. He didn't he didn't he didn't cut Candy coat or sugarcoat anything did he he told people the truth.

You whitewashed tombs you you you you're full of your Deadman's bones inside and other people say listen, you've got sin in your life. You need to turn from and he would tell people the truth because of his love for them.

So somehow the culture and the media and everybody gets us around where if you say anything hurtful now. You're being negative and unloving. No. It's actually loving people want to warn and encourage people to get back on the right road.

That's loving people. Parents want to do that, right, but we can't do it to the society, but then it's hate speech. It's hate speech when we're trying to love it doesn't make any sense. Verse 37 the call of Jesus then he said to his disciples the harvest truly is plentiful.

But the labors are few. Let's all say that again. The harvest truly is plentiful, but the labors are few. Therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out labors into the harvest. Did you catch that the harvest is plentiful?

It's everywhere, but the labors are few now. There's a lot of Christians, but this word isn't dealing necessarily with Christians are dealing with a laborer. Do you know laborer is? Picture the hot Sun you got a shovel in one hand.

Digging bar in the other. You're laboring. You're picking up, you know. Going through the farms and you're picking up picking up the fruit the vegetables you're laboring you're doing some you're building a house and construct.

All these things you're laboring. So it says listen look at this bountiful harvest, but there's no labors a lot of Christians. There's a lot of Christians, but not a lot of labors. It's really what's rewarding is the laboring as.

It as rewarding it is to read your Bible and to study to worship. Do you know that the most rewarding aspect of it is when you serve others? That's why it's the hardest thing to do. It's the hardest thing to do because flesh comes in the feelings right?

I don't feel like it. I Get stuff to do. I just want to come to church and then I'll go home and I won't upset. I won't have to do anything. But God calls us to do things and I believe that's where a lot of joy and peace is tied to.

I think that's why. A lot of Christians are moody and frustrated and irritated because they're not serving. We were never designed to be all take it all in and not do anything with it. But what comes up, I'm too busy right.

I get lots going on too busy, and we just quit. How about if I just said? You know what I think tonight's my last Saturday. I'm gonna go back and make some real money not dealing with all these problems and issues.

It's too hard. Yeah, this is too hard. I'll see you guys. I'll see you guys around. This is too hard. It's too hard. I don't like doing it. I'm busy. I'm a busy guy. I've got four little kids a wife. I'm doing a writing books.

I'm writing articles. I'm speaking. I'm a busy guy. I don't need this. Why am I here? I'm just gonna quit. Why doesn't it seem right? I can't that's true committed. Yeah, I know. But see also we're committed we're supposed to be committed Christians.

When we commit to something. You can't back out two months later or three. Oh, it's too hard now now granted I understand things come up illness injury family. I'm very understanding, but for the most part the Christian Church is not available.

We're not available. And it's hard that the reason is it's hard. It's not too hard to come and sit in an air-conditioned room on soft chairs and hear something go eat a nice dinner. That's not too hard.

What's really hard is the laboring so I just encourage you that God is a rewarder of those who diligently labor in his work. Yes, when it gets tough, actually, that's the best time to do it when you're about ready to bail out.

That's the time to strengthen yourself and continue test the heart. I Truly believe that if somebody should never give up on Christian work just on emotions alone. I don't feel like it's getting difficult.

It's never a good reason if God's calling you you see a I need to take a season. I prayed about I feel peace. Okay, that's good. But just because it's getting hard difficult. Yeah, that's that's usually probably when God's getting ready.

To work in your life open some doors can fill you with the Spirit a new dimension of ministry. But then we just bail out too too soon. I don't want to do that. It's difficult. So we are all labors to some extent the world is the mission field.

Serving as Laborers in God’s Harvest

Think about that. Sometimes we think of just the church, but every do you work anywhere? Do you have neighbors? Do you have friends do you run into people the mission fields everywhere? We should be on high alert.

We're on the mission field for God. It's not just a missionary in a foreign land. This is us in the church. The Christian is a person who makes it easy for others to believe in God. Wow. The Christian is a person who makes it easy for others to believe in God.

Do you make it easy for people to believe in God or do you turn them away by your attitude? I've not perfected this area. What about our kids? Think about that. The Christian is a person who makes it easy makes our kids easy to believe in God.

And that's that's involves ministry and being in their lives. And here's let me just talk in this area of ministry real quick. Desire meets gifting. Okay, so you God gives you a desire. Right, like now I want to do that.

I want to help in that area and you're gifted for that. There's an oh he opens a door, but then it's not all roses. It's not a bed of roses and you don't feel like going every single time and this is just wonderful every single time.

It's it's laboring. It's laboring. It's like doing what you don't want to do. You're telling your flesh now. We've talked about this lots of times. You're telling your flesh what to do. We're gonna go serve tonight.

Yes, we are. I know you want to kick your feet up on the couch and get eat some bonbons. But we're gonna go serve tonight. I know you want to text or email and get out of it. But we're gonna go serve tonight.

I know you don't like doing this and that's exactly why we're gonna do it. Why is the church always in need of helpers? We don't need a lot of helpers just some helper white. Why no, this isn't here only it's everywhere every you talk to most most churches will say number one area.

That's the most difficult. Nursery and children's ministry. Yep, and it's interesting if I told somebody can you be in charge? I Don't think they'd ever quit. Can you be in charge? Oh, absolutely. We'd see them for years.

This is this is the honest sermon tonight. Can you be in charge? Oh, absolutely. They'd be like drill sergeants here. They'd be on time. They'd be committed they would but when I say can you help in this area?

Why is that because you want to be in charge isn't it interesting there we have a surplus of speakers. I Mean you want to come speak at the pub. Oh, oh, yes. Yes. Yes. I'll be there. We have a surplus of worship I've got I got people emailing me for applications for worship.

So no, we're good. We're good. We're good. Every month that goes by do you need worship a leader? Do you need the I'm from in this area? We have people from people, you know, there's a big churches in San Diego or you know that moving this area I could be a word.

No, no, we're good a plethora plethora of leadership plethora of speakers plethora plethora of worship but when it comes to the serving aspect. What happens? Think about that if I told both services, hey, I'm gone next Saturday.

I need somebody speak any volunteers. There would be a line up to here. I'll do it. I'll do it. Then we have to determine. Are you called? Are you gifted because you got to bless the body? But then hey, we need children's ministry helpers.

Guess how many people will see tonight? Why is that think about this is just self-examination? Why is that Well in a nutshell one puts us on a pedestal one puts us where we're not seen. We're not glorified.

We're not magnified. We're not recognized. We're not applauded for our efforts. It's hard. But let me remind you that was the job of your Savior. Made himself of no reputation took on the form of a man sinful, man.

And he humbled himself to the point of death even death on a cross. That's all we're doing is doing what Christ did and all's well chamber said in his great work. My utmost first highest that God will bury his men and women in the midst of paltry things.

No monuments are erected for them. No songs are sung for them. They're in a place where they cannot be seen because that's where they do the most work for God. Think about that. I mean the people we people idolize the pulpit.

I mean they oh Shane's true. Oh, no. The by I'm a servant leader. I've got guidelines in 1st Timothy 3 about 10 things that I have to have in my character. I have to come and I have to serve and I have to lead.

I have to lead by example. You guys get to email people back mean emails and hang up on them or cuss at him. I can't do any of that. I just got to take it and suck it up and just whoa. You know work work on my because I'm leading by example.

It's difficult. This isn't a glorified position and that's why I talked to a lot of young guys and they'll say oh I just want to you know, oh man, you better be called to do it because it will kill you.

Think about it less pay for more work for more headaches new levels bring more devils dealing with all the stuff. You're you're it's hurting you're a lot of times you're hurting. There's great mountaintop experiences, but there's tremendous valleys.

You're always trying to please always trying to this. You've got to be on a high alert. How are you gonna be last week sermon? I have no idea and then how are you gonna be next week? I have no idea and then these expectations now people are calling emailing the website saying we're coming in from North Dakota or Hawaii.

Or we want to be there. Are you gonna be there to speak? I'm like, oh wow. This is a lot of a lot to hold. I said, I don't know. I might be sick, but I'm planning on it. Give God the glory. He's the one doing it.

We're just empty vessels and he wants to work. I believe in many lives in here just empty or it's a Lord. What do you want me to do? What do you want me? We should have a children's ministry sign up with waiting lists we should have a waiting list for ushering and a waiting list for sound and a waiting list for all the things we need and Trust me.

I didn't plan to be this. Oh, let me go get him sermon. Because guess who used to sit in that pew four years ago and every time they asked you. Oh, I'm just not gifted for that. That's not my calling that's not my giftings.

I Know I know I've been there and I know I ran from that. I ran from this for a year I said no, no, no, no because it's comfortable, right? And there's nothing wrong with being comfortable sometimes enjoying entertainment relaxing.

God's given us those things but there comes a time when the person has to labor labor for God. It's very healthy. Here's a few reasons why people send themselves into the ministry. They prove I'm spiritual or important.

I know I know probably half dozen men that came to me in the past couple years that want to be a pastor and none of them are and I don't know if They're going to be but I think some of these reasons are why they want it.

Look I've arrived. Look dad. I've arrived. Look, you said I was a nobody. I arrived. I'm important. Look at me. I'm important and Charles Spurgeon said in his famous book lectures to my students. He said if you can do anything else do it.

Because if you can then you were not called by God. See a true calling of God. You cannot run from it very long. Jonah Paul rode to Damascus. God will just knock you off your horse. No, here's what you're doing now.

You can't run from it so that's a good way of self-examining our hearts. Never never get into ministry or missions to prove anything a lot of times we do that I am on the mission field. Look what I'm doing.

I'm serving. I'm going to Africa. I'm sir. Look what I'm doing. Look, aren't I so special and we toot our horn, right? Look look look God says no, that's not true ministry. Also for validation we have low self-esteem.

So if you can so look look what I'm doing braise the self-esteem. This is a funny one for me. Many people get into this or what I'm doing is a source of income and an easy job. Wow so what happens is when they're not when it's not easy and When they're not feeling important they bail out.

See if you go into things with the right motive saying I'm going to serve in actually as I'm speaking. Don I mean nursery. I think in our nursery. Verify this we've had the same helpers for a few years since we started most of since we started almost or within a year or so.

Same committed people we can count on them and just but in all other areas. We just give up too easy. Step out and serve apply spiritual disciplines and allow God to open your door. So many people know they're saying saying okay Lord.