Monday Ministry Minute is a brief idea or concept about how you can have an effective ministry right where God has planted you.
Because We Need Each Other
Phillip A. Bishop
Kinesiology,
University of Alabama
Teaching on a secular campus can be lonesome at times. Grant proposals and research production are team efforts, but preparing for class and writing are often solitary endeavors. Like many of you I value efficiency, and it is usually more efficient to do things alone.
One thing I cannot do alone, or do well alone, is minister. Fellowship compels me to do what I need to do but won't do much on my own.
In American Christianity we are often over-worked and under-prayed. I know that God commanded us to pray, that I NEED to pray, and that my campus needs prayer. Christ set the example that we ought always to pray. But I have a character deficiency -- I hate to pray (and my wife hates when I announce that publicly). My relationship with my Christian colleagues on campus offers me some hope.
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