What Me Worry?

At various times in ministry, people have asked me, “Does it worry you whether your message was good or not?” “Does it worry you that people weren’t in Church?” “Does it worry you that the finances are in the red?” Well, no. It did not worry me -- at least, not more than fleetingly. I suggested in my Master's research that ministry is “a means of grace”. This is a crucial Reformation concept -- although it hasn't always extended as far as ministry. That is, ministry is a means through which God’s sovereign grace operates. OBSERVATION: I once interviewed a new deacon in Church. I asked him what his first impressions of the diaconate were. He said, “I was worried that they weren’t worried!”