A hug or supportive physical touch at the right moment, changes everything. Just as a word can bloom when given and received from the heart. Find the good soil in one another and plant there. It’s wisdom to bless others well, not just how you yourself get blessed, but how God is blessing them. Having His orientation towards other is the key to lasting ministry into others. It’s important not just to have His information for the other person or situation, but His Tone and Orientation of Love towards them. God gives particularly. So should we. Not just God is loving them, He is loving others in specific ways. This is how He nuances Himself, and how we get to know and reflect these nuances of Grace. Partnering with Him in ministering His Life to others, is another way of getting to know just how awesome and specific His loving really is. Ministry is just a way to get to know and love and appreciate more of God. Without the specific nuances of His Love, we can become nothing more than resounding gongs, useful only to ourselves–sort of narcissistic ministry (ministry to meet our own needs, even the one to feel useful to others), instead of ministry as a way of spirituality-of knowing and therefore overflowing and revealing God to others.
On ministering well
08 Friday Apr 2016
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