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The Local Church
Philosophy of Ministry
by Pastor Henry Stewart
What is success in Your eyes, O God? We long to do things Your way and minister for Your glory. Make our efforts conform to the perfectness of Your nature and the revelation of Your Word. We pray. Amen.
When speaking of a local church's "Philosophy of Ministry" what we are really asking is: "How do we know when we are doing ministry successfully?"
Implied in the question is the need to define a standard for identifying "success" in ministry. The very notion that we have a responsibility to define success in ministry may strike some of us as vaguely unspiritual. Is not success a worldly concept?
It may be of some comfort to examine Nehemiah's prayer in Nehemiah 1:11. Nehemiah asks the Lord, "Make thy servant successful," as he prepares to lay before King Artaxerxes his plan to begin a rebuilding work in Jerusalem.
Most of us, to one degree or another, find ourselves to be "repairers of broken walls" in our IFCA......

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