Blog: October 2015

J. D. Greear, a pastor in North Carolina, is the author of Gaining By Losing:  Why the Future Belongs to Churches that Send.  He asks:  if we thought of all our blessings (e.g., here at Goshen) as seeds, how many of them are we planting for kingdom growth, and how many of them are we keeping in storehouses to feed ourselves?  “Jesus measures the success of our ministries not by how large we grow the storehouse, but by how widely we distribute its seeds” (p. 16). Greear draws on Jesus’ counterintuitive teaching that “He who loves his life ...