I went to the ribbon cutting of a new ministry yesterday. Hope Pregnancy Center has been in Hutto for some time but recently relocated to a small house on Jim Cage. We got a tour of the new “digs.”
My experience got me to thinking: Ministry (including a pregnancy center) is proactive and reactive. I think many believe a pregnancy center to be reactive. After all, they minister to people after the conception. That of course is true. But it’s also a fact that the ministry is proactive. They attempt to intervene with education etc., prior to the conception.
While Jesus was in public ministry, he ministered in proactive and reactive ways ie. Sermon on the Mount = proactive; physical healings = reactive. The church would be wise to follow that example. The church to which I belong is evangelistic which is obviously proactive. But we also desire to be a healing church - a church that ministers to people after the challenge arrives.
A couple of questions: Is the Church that God intended to be about proactive things? reactive? What’s your ideas of ministry?
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