An Organizing Center for Our Work
This week I sat with someone who is a partner in an ad/marketing agency to get some counsel about the radio ministry, our youth mission, and my own upcoming radio program that I hope to begin producing soon. She challenged me to carefully evaluate my passions and listen to my heart telling me the one thing I want to speak to and put my energies into. I have pondered that question for quite some time, but it seemed like when she asked it of me it was a signal that a clear and final answer would now arise within me. My challenge in the ministry is how broadly we are operating after 25 years in Asia. We help fund and administrate an orphanage, a radio network, a youth organization and a fund-raising operation to attract money from U.S. donors to needy Asian projects. We travel all over Asia to teach on leadership and personal life management. We administrate, write and do a fair amount of pastoral care and pre-marital counseling. All of it is needed and must continue somehow, but it is clear that I do need some other administrators and workers for 2008.I do have an answer for the question, however. If I could only speak about one subject for the rest of my life I know what it is. I want to talk about Jesus. I think that everything that is wrong with the church in every nation of the world stems from one constant failure–the failure to truly embrace and live according to the teachings of Jesus Christ. Abuses of power, gossip, theft of funds, lethargy, pride, division–you name it. It simply flows from refusing to become the servant of Christ and his servant to others.I believe that Jesus is our savior, but I also believe that he is the smartest, most integrated man who ever lived. I believe that his teachings–if followed carefully–will purify every life and fix all that is wrong with it. I want to know Christ. I want to love him with all my heart, soul, mind and strength and I want to prove this daily in the way I obey him and act as his servant to minister to others. That is the organizing center for my work. The rest is just details.
chuckquinley on November 10th 2007 in Uncategorized