In my blog yesterday, I talked about the incredible impact of the weekend’s services and the ways in which God used that time to reignite my passion for His presence in our corporate gatherings.
The other side of the coin, however, is that every such gathering is loaded with other potential responsibilities that emerge as a result of those dynamic connections! Ministry is always about people and in the end if an encounter with God is to have fruitfulness in someone’s life there needs to be one-on-one follow up that takes place with those individuals.
As much as I’d like to say that there’s some kind of program or system in place that catches all the people that make commitments or have encounters with the Lord, it’s just not so. That’s why the need to mobilize the body of Christ to see itself, each and every member of it, as significant in the role in making disciples so crucial. If you don’t think you’re responsible for anyone you won’t be, and as a result, the church has no chance of ever reaching its potential in terms of changing lives.
And so we celebrate those amazing moments like the weekend service but at the same time we must know that those lead to a significant amount of working in the trenches with people as they apply what God did on the mountain top into their daily routine of life!
Blessings,
Pastor Jay
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