I was outside a little bit yesterday (I should have been outside more) and I walked over to the vegetable garden that we built not too long ago. Two of 6 tomato plants have died; however, the rest of the garden seems fine with the exception of one thing…there isn’t much fruit. But as my neighbor assured me, vegetables will start popping up in a month or so and before you know it I’ll have more than what I know what to do with.
At this point of the summer I feel like the ministry is my vegetable garden. There is some fruit blossoming; however, I want more. I don’t know if this is a pride issue or the fact that I’m anxiously anticipating the fall. I know what we are doing in the ministry is going to produce a lot of fruit; but, a question arises, “Are we ready?”
In the student ministry at Nativity we have 200 middle school and high school students involved, which is great but if that were to double or triple, would we be ready? God will always gives us what we can handle, so how many students can we appropriately build relationships and create opportunities with so that they can go deeper with Jesus Christ? Only God knows. But the one thing that I know in order to be ready for the larger numbers we need to be able to handle the smaller, we need to build a strong foundation.
Luke 16:10 – “Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much…”