Do You Have Mad Church Disease?
- Posted by: Todd
- Posted on: Tue, January 13, 2009
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Anne writes:
When a Code Blue is issued in a hospital, any available medical personnel run to the room of the person who’s coding. It’s a matter of life and death. Milliseconds count. Politics, personal beliefs, hang-ups, grudges, and pride are put aside as the life of a fellow human lies in their hands. It’s an emergency.Since the beginning of time, mankind has been facing a life-and-death emergency. We are separated from our Creator. All he wants is for us to be reconciled to him. He sent his own flesh and blood down to earth to restore us. And we’re to help guide others to that restoration.
The greatest commandments are what? To love God and to love our neighbors as we love ourselves. In most cases, I don’t question our love for God. The passion and intensity with which we go about our lives are small indicators of our love. But we are guilty of not loving ourselves. The statistics don’t lie. And even if they did, I’m sure you could conclude from your own experience that, quite frankly, we’re pretty terrible at loving ourselves.
If we can’t love ourselves, we can’t love others in the way that God has designed us. We can care for others and can want the best for them, but to love them in the godliest ways is impossible until we can obey this great commandment.
We are in the midst of a crisis that needs our full devotion of mind, body, and spirit.
In Mark 12:30, Jesus declares, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.”
Notice Jesus doesn’t say “love others with all your strength”; he says to “love the Lord your God.”
By loving God, we’re faithful to his commandments. And when we’re obedient, God will carry out his work through us.
Satan is out to annihilate hope and light, both in our world and in us, the body of Christ. He’s well aware of the crisis of the human race, and he will do anything and everything in his power to obliterate our efforts.
As the church, we need to take a good, hard look around and ask ourselves if we are ready to fight. To fight for our own love relationship with God through Christ, and for the world around us as well.
Mad Church Disease: Overcoming the Burnout Epidemic
Todd
"Mad Church Disease" releases in just a few days. My friend, Anne Jackson has written a wonderful book about the conflict, stress, and struggle that church leaders face. The book is her personal journey to make sure that her personal ministry is different. After a ministry-stress related hospital stay, someone on her church staff asked Anne this question: "Does working at this church interfere with your communion with Christ?" Anne says that this one question really allowed her to turn her life around. Thinking that there were many other church staff people dealing with the same issues, "Mad Church Disease" is the result of listening to hundreds of stories of ministry conflict, abuse, and struggle. If you've ever dealt with these types of things in ministry, this book really will help you come to grips with ministry's sometimes dark side. Today, I'll share just a little snippet from the book... I hope you enjoy...
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