I have a friend who is part of a large influential missions organization. His organization recently polled a large percentage of their staff. One of the questions asked, "How often do you share your faith (in ministry, in your community, through your church, through a website, etc)?" The options for answers were "daily, weekly, monthly, occasionally, never".
Over 62% of the staff answered "occasionally" and 21% said monthly, while only 9% said they share their faith weekly. A surprising 6% stated they never share their faith.
I expressed my surprise over these numbers. It seems that a ministry focused on missions would have more people actually doing missional work to bring people into the kingdom. Somehow I doubt that the people in his organization enjoy twiddling their thumbs all day. More than likely they work hard and aim to achieve the goals they've set in ministry. The "problem", then, must lie in another area.
Could it be that our highly organized missions have created structures that actually hinder people from living missionally? Has living as the Church taken a back seat to putting on Church?
1 comments:
Those are very interesting thoughts Joe. I am finding that a lot of the time, for me, when ministry becomes my focus my eyes are not as fixed on the cross. If we are not focused on the HUGENESS of the Glory of God, ministry can be as secular as any other job.
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