INESCAPABLE ASSURANCE

Only when our self-worth is intact will be able to sort through the motives behind our actions and more importantly, the motives behind our belief systems. Because people do not understand their motives, they are able to bring about any change in their life. Failures are always repeated. There is an almost inescapable assurance that the future wills no difference from the past.
          Only when our self-worth is established, however, can a person look realistically at their life, without being devastated. Low self-worth produces the need to justify. It can never say “I am wrong,” or, “I need to change,” or, “I am responsible.”
          Because self-worth is one of the deepest needs of man, one will develop a brief system that protects the carnal self-worth system. This is why people are defensive about what they believe. Their self-worth is explicitly linked to what they believe.
          With self-worth intact, a heart full of love and desire to be a servant, ministry becomes nothing, but sheer joy. The agony that comes is for those who need help. Even that will not be tormented. Bible-based self-worth always produces a “CAN DO” attitude.
         It is only this point of worth that we can ask one of the most important questions of all: “WHAT IS THE GOAL OF THE GOSPEL?” Our answer to that question will answer the next question: “WHAT IS THE GOAL OF MY MINISTRY?”
          After ten years of ministering in various capacities, I must say that a great deal of that time I felt that it was my job to “get people right.” As I have talked to ministries all across the country, that is the common consensus. Our sermon, our counseling, or all that we do is geared towards trying to get people right. This approach to ministry will produce every woe imaginable to a leader. THIS FAULTY BASIS OF MINISTRY IS THE PRIMARY SOURCE OF ALL THE TROUBLES WE HAVE PREVIOUSLY BLAMED ON THE PEOPLE.
          This mentality communications is colored by something that destroys worth in others. If we assume it is our job to get everyone right, there are two definite things we will convey. First, we will have to convince them of how wrong they are. Secondly, we will have to convince them of how right we are.

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