Focusing on the Kingdom
I just said something in an IM conversation and it begs to be repeated here just so that we all are sitting in accountability and on the same accord:
...every ounce of energy [towards IT as ministry] you have should already be focsed on the King(dom): Deut 6:3-5
I know its easy to have this mindset that ministry and work are seperate. To a large degree they are. There are boundaries in the workplace that might not be present in a setting where you are ministering to someone. But the idea that ministry and occupation should be divorced from one another to the degree that we have to work for the Church/Body for it to be minsitry is something of a failed mindset.
Every ounce of our being should be dedicated to living for God in every moment. We should be tired in our pursuit in focusing for the King and the presence of His Kingdom in the hearts and lives of all those around us.
And you shall love the Lord your God with all your [mind and] heart and with your entire being and with all your might. (Deut 6:5)
There is nothing that we should divorce from the action of giving God, and then others, the fruit of all of our being. To focus on the Kingdom means that this is an every moment, an every person, and every place direction.
posted by Antoine @ 10/02/2008 10:45:00 AM
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Thanks for this. As someone who is beginning IT and communication for a church, I needed the reminder. It's about the Lord and not the stuff.
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