His Abiding Love

• Apr. 9, 2007 - My children ARE my ministry

Someone posted this article on a message board I'm part of and it is so wonderful, I'm going to share it here. Women in Ministry Now that I've offended most of you feel free to comment.  It's so sad that most churches don't see our family and our children as  an 'important enough'  ministry.  If we say 'my family is my ministry' we are placated and patronized with 'of course, dear!!' and then told to put the children in childcare/nursery/with a sitter, so we can get on with 'real' ministering.  My family is important enough.  My family is my first and foremost ministry that the Lord has given me.  Nothing else comes ahead of it.   God, family, then other things if the Lord allows for it.  The church does not equal God, and doing things for the church is not the same as doing them for God.  Put your kids ahead of 'ministry'.  Make them and your husband your ministry.  Don't try to divide your time between the two.  Do the ministry has provided right in front of you.  The Bible says what good is it for a man to gain the whole world but lose his own soul?.   To paraphrase, what good is it for a woman to gain the whole world and lose her own children to the world because she didn't take time to 'bother' with them because they were in the 'way' of her 'ministry. In Christ, Samantha

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