When it comes to ministry I have never understood the concept of enough. I know my critics will say that I care too much about numbers or how big my ministry is but the simple fact of the matter is how much IS enough? When are you capped off? When do you reach the point of crossing the line of “that church is TOO big”? At what point do you say to the next guy, “I’m sorry we are full go somewhere else.” (Basically saying in the literal since, “go to hell.”)
My daughter comes to me after being told to clean her room ever 15 minutes, “Is this clean enough?”. It drives me crazy! Many in the church have similar attitudes. I want to do JUST enough to feel good about myself. We use great excuses for enough, I need more time for “margin” or “family” or “me time”. I don’t see that in scripture. I do see in the heroes of the faith an urgency to tell as many people the Gospel of Jesus as possible. They assembled massive crowds, and spoke boldly. They endured, they pushed the envelope they never said ENOUGH.
Jesus when approached by his disciples in Matthew 14, after a long day of ministry the crowds were beginning to get hungry. The disciples were to the point of enough of this it has been a long day, we did good, we are tired and hungry, let’s go! Jesus didn’t believe in enough. He took a kids sack lunch and fed 5000. Jesus wasn’t finished, just because a struggle came the ministry didn’t stop. Enough with Enough!
This is something that obviously God is stirring in me so if you find it totally random simply chalk it up as me needing to vent…hey it’s my blog!
Sean Rheaume 