Leverage

I grew up in Jacksonville Florida before there were full time youth ministers to oversee the youth ministries of the church. One thing I remember about that time was how active our youth ministry was back then. There were spiritual retreats, fellowship events and opportunities for discipleship. All done by volunteers in the local churches in the Jacksonville area. What made it work was the volunteers leveraged their resources to bring about a meaningful youth ministry. Some adults were good teachers, some were good at relationships, and some were great with creativity; all working together to make our youth ministry work.

Here is my question for today; why don't we leverage our ministries any more? It is my observation that most ministries have an individualist mindset rather than kingdom minded mentality. I wonder what would happen today if we would become more kingdom minded rather then working on our personal kingdoms?

When Jesus announced the kingdom of God was near he was stating a movement was about to begin that would conquer all other kingdoms through the love of Christ. For the kingdom to be effective we must constantly move forward with the unity that God desire and Christ prayer for. This happens when we begin to partner with one another to see Christ glorified.

So I ask; are you building THE kingdom or are you building your kingdom?