Liberating Ministry from the Success Syndrome (Biblia.com)

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Every year thousands of God's servants leave the ministry convinced they are failures. Years ago, in the midst of a crisis of faith, Kent Hughes almost became one of them. But instead he and his wife Barbara turned to God's Word, determined to learn what God had to say about success and to evaluate their ministry from a biblical point of view. This book describes their journey and their...

But imperceptibly my high Christian idealism had shifted from serving to receiving, from giving to getting. I realized that what I really wanted was a growing church and “success” more than the smile of God. Subconsciously I was evaluating nearly everything from the perspective of how it would affect church growth, I realized that in the extreme such thinking reduces people to so much “beef on the hoof”—a terrible thought. It also enthrones a relentless pragmatism in church planning. And if this

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