Good cry?
I've heard that expression a few times (from women), but last night I think I experienced it. The session here at the Global Advance Pastor's Forum at Big Cedar Lodge with Dr. Roy Fish moved me like I haven't been moved in a long time. As he finished his presentation, I just began to weep and couldn't stop (didn't want to!)
Why all the tears?
Because he reminded us through several simple stories of the privilege of sowing Gospel seeds into lost people, and the harvest that follows. In a nutshell, I wept with desire for God to use me to help reach people with the Gospel. That used to be a regular prayer of mine. It used to be a big focus of ministry. But sometimes in the busyness of 'doing church' we forget what it's all about - the reason for capital campaigns, and children's ministry, and a hot band, and coffee bars, and websites, and nice facilities, and sermon series, and big screen multimedia, and email blasts and TV commercials, and multi-site expansion, and ALL that we do - is simply to reach lost people who matter to God!
When was the last time you wept over that?
Why all the tears?
Because he reminded us through several simple stories of the privilege of sowing Gospel seeds into lost people, and the harvest that follows. In a nutshell, I wept with desire for God to use me to help reach people with the Gospel. That used to be a regular prayer of mine. It used to be a big focus of ministry. But sometimes in the busyness of 'doing church' we forget what it's all about - the reason for capital campaigns, and children's ministry, and a hot band, and coffee bars, and websites, and nice facilities, and sermon series, and big screen multimedia, and email blasts and TV commercials, and multi-site expansion, and ALL that we do - is simply to reach lost people who matter to God!
When was the last time you wept over that?
posted by Pastor Jerry McQuay at 8:37 AM
2 Comments:
amen... You do that, you show people the way to the Lord every week, you found us with your words when we were lost. It is definately something to get emotional about. God put that gift into your heart. You never fail to reach us and keep us from straying like a flock of sheep being gaurded. That may be a silly analogy but true.
Awwww, Lori, you make me want to cry again! Thanks for the kind words of encouragement. (And by the way, your analogy is not at all silly - it's the same one that Jesus Himself used, as well as numerous other places in Scripture where God's people are compared to sheep!)
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