So I took my family to Bruster’s Ice Cream last night.
It’s one of our favorite places because they give kids free “baby cones” just for stopping by. Being a young church planter with four little ones, we will take as many freebies as we can get! Though I usually don’t get a cone (blood sugar issues), today I did.
And it was glorious.
No sugar-added chocolate caramel swirl.
Even with fake sugar it was still awesome.
And I believe it made the single greatest mess in adult ice cream eating history.
And in the midst of the drips I began to think of ministry.
Like good ice cream, good ministry is messy.
While there will always the typical mess that the enemy and the fallen world make in our midst, faithfully preaching the Bible and bringing the Gospel to bear on daily life brings creates a mess of its own.
- Sin and idolatry surface.
- Selfishness and pride are revealed in ourselves and our people.
And we have a mess on our hands.
But as Paul Tripp and other remind us, God is more than willing and able to help us clean up the mess that preaching His Word creates.
Ask yourself a couple of hard questions today:
Is there any of THAT kind of mess is being made in your ministry today?
If not, what needs to change?
How are you partnering with God to clean up the mess that is being made?
How are you equipping others to aid in the process?
Praying for you today as you think it through and serve the King.
