Pastor, You Are A Work of Art Too.
Is God mad at you if your church doesn't grow right now? If church attendance doesn't climb or goes backward, how does God feel about you? If you have to reduce the number of kids classes because the children in your church are growing up and no one replaces them, what does God think? Is God's dream for you and your church growth or nothing? There are many reasons you could be in this situation. You might be compromising on doctrine. Or your community could be shrinking. You might be unfaithful to do evangelism and discipleship. Or there is a waiting period between your faithfulness and your fruitfulness. I don't know why your church is struggling. Here is one thing that I do know, God wants to do something in you and not just through you. Pastor, God is working on you and that is work that God thinks is worth doing. In a writing lecture Brandon Sanderson gave to a Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy college course, he explained that writing fiction is worth doing even ...