A couple gut check questions for your Monday morning:
1. Do you want to “lead a church” or do the work of the ministry?
2. Are you obedient to the Holy Spirit or are you running a show, starring you?
If you do the things the church does, with the Holy Spirit inside of you, that’s church! Conversely, if you merely “lead a church,” but don’t do things the church does, what are you doing?
What’s the motivation? What’s the purpose? At the end of the day, what are you doing? It’s all in how you view people. Are they your machine? Or is your purpose truly serving people?
Brad Cooper, Student Pastor at Newspring Church said something a few years ago that has never left me:
“This is polluted Christianity. It is not OK, and it is never right, and our aim is not to make much of me making much of Jesus. That’s not Christianity. That’s called pride. The aim is to make His Name famous, and my name less.”