What We Are About

Gospel: Matthew 9: 32-38

It is always instructive for us to re-examine the mission of Jesus and what he called the disciples to do and to compare that to what we are doing in what we call ministry today.  We first find Jesus proclaiming good news to every town he enters - the good news of the arrival of God's kingdom and the liberation from all that enslaves us and holds us in bondage.  

That message of liberation finds concrete expression in Jesus tending to those who are sick and lame, those who are possessed by demons, and those hungry and outcasts.  He goes about healing all with infirmities, freeing people from their demons, providing food to the hungry and table fellowship with those regarded as sinners and outcasts.  

So, what are we about in what we consider ministry today? We raise a lot of money for a lot of things, but is it these things Jesus was about? He sent the disciples out to do this work without any money, for it costs little to be with the poor and imprisoned.  It costs little to provide fellowship for outcasts and sinners.  It costs little to help those in bondage of their demons. Today as in Jesus' day there is a crying need for people to serve the sick, imprisoned, and poor.  Let us be about this, for it is the work of Jesus, and set aside that which is not.