{"id":7523,"date":"2025-06-28T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/satchurch.lv\/?p=7523"},"modified":"2015-06-06T00:28:35","modified_gmt":"2015-06-05T21:28:35","slug":"what-true-ministry-ministry-changes-peoples-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/what-true-ministry-ministry-changes-peoples-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"What true ministry is and how ministry changes people\u2019s lives"},"content":{"rendered":"May peace and grace from our Lord Jesus Christ be multiplied in your life on this wonderful day! I pray for God\u2019s Word to penetrate your heart and strengthen you in your spirit, soul and body.\r\n\r\nWe are discussing what true ministry is and how ministry changes people\u2019s lives. We saw that usually Jesus first served people and helped them practically and then pointed them to the eternal things \u2013 to their Heavenly Father. We must remember that the goal of ministry is to help people reunite with God through our good words.\r\n\r\nTrue ministry will require of us to sacrifice something. But we do it for the Lord Jesus Christ and the Gospel:\r\n\r\n \r\n
\u00a0\u00abSo Jesus answered and said, \u201eAssuredly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands,\u00a0for My sake and the gospel\u2019s<\/u>, who shall not receive a hundredfold now in this time \u2013 houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions \u2013 and in the age to come, eternal life\u00bb\u00a0(Mark, 10:29-30).<\/h6>\r\n \r\n\r\nYou see, Jesus pointed out what the reason of our ministry and sacrifice is:\u00a0\u201c…for My sake and the gospel\u2019s\u201d<\/u><\/em><\/strong>. That is the goal of Christian ministry. We serve in order for people to have opportunity to hear the Gospel of the Kingdom and get to know our King \u2013 the Lord Jesus Christ. Why is it so important?\r\n\r\nFirst<\/strong>\u00a0, Gospel is the power of God for salvation for every believer:\r\n\r\n \r\n
\u00abFor I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek\u00bb\u00a0(Romans, 1:16).<\/h6>\r\n \r\n\r\nSecond<\/strong>\u00a0, the only Saviour and true Helper is Jesus Christ:\r\n\r\n \r\n
\u00abNor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved\u00bb\u00a0(Acts, 4:12).<\/h6>\r\n \r\n\r\nSo it turns out that we are not helping anybody if we only serve them, but do not make sure they learn of the Gospel and Christ. We only rob people of the power of God to salvation that is hidden in the gospel and of the connection with the only Person Who can truly help them \u2013 connection with Christ.\r\n\r\nIf our ministry does not introduce people to the Gospel and to Jesus, then people will place their expectations on us and not on God. In such a way we train people to trust other people, instead of trusting the Lord. Please, take a note that it says in the Bible:\r\n\r\n \r\n
\u00abThus says the LORD: \u201eCursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart departs from the LORD. (..) Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, and whose hope is the LORD\u201d \u00bb\u00a0(Jeremiah, 17:5,7).<\/h6>\r\n \r\n\r\nIt is very important to take these things to heart when it comes to true ministry. It is not enough to play your role well; you have to play it by the rules.\r\n\r\nJesus established for us the goal and the rules of Christian ministry. He did not just help, heal and feed people; He always pointed them to their Heavenly Father. Jesus helped people to understand that men do not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the Heavenly Father:\r\n\r\n \r\n
\u00abBut He answered and said, \u201cIt is written, \u2018Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God\u2019\u201d \u00bb\u00a0(Mathew, 4:4).<\/h6>\r\n \r\n\r\nWe can and we must give a piece of bread to the hungry to meet their needs. But bread is not the thing that keeps us alive. True life is not possible without accepting God\u2019s guidance. A man shall not live by bread alone. By meeting the physical and material needs alone we cannot help him to solve the problem of his soul and to fill the void in his heart. A full and happy life is only possible when a person learns to live by the word that proceeds from the mouth of God!\r\n\r\nGod bless you! I will talk to you again tomorrow in \u201cDaily Word for Spiritual Edification\u201d.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nPastor Rufus Ajiboye","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We saw that usually Jesus first served people and helped them practically and then pointed them to the eternal things \u2013 to their Heavenly Father. We must remember that the goal of ministry is to help people reunite with God through our good words.\r\n\r\nTrue ministry will require of us to sacrifice something. But we do it for the Lord Jesus Christ and the Gospel","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33505,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-word"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":12,"label":"Daily Word"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/pexels-photo-3865915-1024x682.jpeg",1024,682,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"Pastor Rufus Ajiboye","author_link":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/author\/rufus-ajiboye\/"},"comment_info":1,"category_info":[{"term_id":12,"name":"Daily Word","slug":"daily-word","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":12,"taxonomy":"category","description":"Daily word for spiritual strength","parent":0,"count":650,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0","cat_ID":12,"category_count":650,"category_description":"Daily word for spiritual strength","cat_name":"Daily Word","category_nicename":"daily-word","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39535,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7523\/revisions\/39535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}