Where Would You Start?

In sharing your faith with someone, sharing your testimony, telling someone about God, Jesus, how to be become a Christian, where would you start? why?

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Why Are You Working For?

I remember working in California for a Church sixty hours a week. The Sr. minister called me in his office and told me that if I wanted to make a name for myself I had to work more hours. So I ask you ministers why are you work working for? Are we working to making a name for ourselves? Do we over work oursevles and neglect our families to make a name for ourselves? Do we strive for the Masters or PHD to make a name for ourselves? Are we striving to get hired at a mega church so that we can make a name for ourselves? Are we striving to make friends with those who are already well known so we might be well known so we might be invited to lectureships, workshops so that we can make a name for ourselves? Are churches to blame for this temptation? Why or why not?

Or Is it all about serving God? Glorifying God? Living up to our calling as ministers? Are we as ministers working for God? Working to please him? Using our gifts and talents? Are we satified and content where God has placed us? Do we understand as ministers that God wants us to take care of our families first, take care of our children, spend time with our wives? Why is taking care of the family so important? What happens if we neglect our families for the sake of making a name for ourselves?

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God's Will Be Done?

While in the hospital my prayer life has changed in a dramatic way. I prayed to God in the hospital not my will be done but your will be done in every area and situation of my life. Jesus prayed it in the garden as he was faced with the cross. As Christians we should pray it.
Isn't that Paul was getting to when he said it is no longer I but Christ? It was all about doing His will?

The questions I have are: Why should we pray for God's will to be done in our lives? Is it hard a hard prayer to pray and live by? Why? What happens in a Christian's life when we live according to God's will? When the Church does God's will how will the church be blessed? Function? Grow? Behave? When ministers, elders, and church leaders pray this prayer how will it affect their ministries and the Church?

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