MINISTRY UNDER THE MICROSCOPE (2 OF 3)
by Scott Maze
Scripture: Malachi 2:1-9
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Ministry Under the Microscope (2 of 3)
Series: Living a Life Above Average
Scott Maze
Malachi 2:1-9
The spiritual temperature of many of us must be something other than lukewarm. People need to see that God is the all-consuming reality in our lives. Reaching the Next Generation is about being consumed with Someone. It is to be captured. We need to raise the spiritual temperatures of this generation. For many of us, we continue to operate at a low spiritual temperature in our homes and our church. Others come into our homes or in our churches to check out God. They get near us and they immediately sense that our spiritual temperature is cold. They rub their hands together and think, ''Their God mustn't be great or else, this place would be warm.'' Their love of Him would be contagious. So, many leave our presence and find something or someone else to worship. Instead of saving of us money in the cold winter of the first decade after the millennium, this lowering of the spiritual thermostat is costing us. Our cold indifference to God is costing us the next generation of disciples.
During a religious festival in Katmandu, Nepal, all the schools, business, and other establishments were closed because of the religious holiday. It was a day of worship for those whose Hindu faith caused them to bow down before one of several million deities. A missionary stopped to watch a Hindu women bowing low, chanting, and prostrating herself in the middle of a busy street on this holiday. She had seen this ritual of worship many times, but what caught her attention this day was that the women bowed before a pile of yak dung! A Yak is a domesticated ox. There among this ugly mental picture you are now forming was a women who scattered her flowers and devoted herself in worship for all to see. She suffered no embarrassment. Nor did she show any sign of hesitation. She had no fear of disrupting traffic of provoking anyone's ridicule. The reason I bring this missionary's story ...
Series: Living a Life Above Average
Scott Maze
Malachi 2:1-9
The spiritual temperature of many of us must be something other than lukewarm. People need to see that God is the all-consuming reality in our lives. Reaching the Next Generation is about being consumed with Someone. It is to be captured. We need to raise the spiritual temperatures of this generation. For many of us, we continue to operate at a low spiritual temperature in our homes and our church. Others come into our homes or in our churches to check out God. They get near us and they immediately sense that our spiritual temperature is cold. They rub their hands together and think, ''Their God mustn't be great or else, this place would be warm.'' Their love of Him would be contagious. So, many leave our presence and find something or someone else to worship. Instead of saving of us money in the cold winter of the first decade after the millennium, this lowering of the spiritual thermostat is costing us. Our cold indifference to God is costing us the next generation of disciples.
During a religious festival in Katmandu, Nepal, all the schools, business, and other establishments were closed because of the religious holiday. It was a day of worship for those whose Hindu faith caused them to bow down before one of several million deities. A missionary stopped to watch a Hindu women bowing low, chanting, and prostrating herself in the middle of a busy street on this holiday. She had seen this ritual of worship many times, but what caught her attention this day was that the women bowed before a pile of yak dung! A Yak is a domesticated ox. There among this ugly mental picture you are now forming was a women who scattered her flowers and devoted herself in worship for all to see. She suffered no embarrassment. Nor did she show any sign of hesitation. She had no fear of disrupting traffic of provoking anyone's ridicule. The reason I bring this missionary's story ...
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