Heckel Ministries

If you went on sabbatical and the Lord came to take over your church physically for three months, name one thing that would be different when you got back.

Part of the call of apostles is that they see the beauty and and increase of the Kingdom God is releasing through His people. Apostles want to draw that out and protect it.

You see in Acts as the Apostles position men to take care of the widows and commission others for ministry.

Paul also tells Timothy how to recognize leaders, and he calls out leaders who are operating from selfish motives and warns against false teachers coming in when he leaves.

Our heart is to see more laborers rise up, rise up with less red tape and stress, and to be effective.

Something that I often see hinder ministers, preaching or teaching out of their experiences and desires rather than the need of the person in front of them and how Jesus wants to encounter them in it.

So we can pull any number of ways scripture has been taught wrong, people have misused ministry, etc. There is a place for addressing weaknesses in the Body, but we must be aware that it isn’t even a problem for everyone.

For example, if you are going after the lost and discipling them, they simply want to see the promises of Jesus come into reality. They have zero clue about our Christian Soap Operas we have going on. For them, simply know what you know the Bible teaches and teach that. Meet their needs as Christ working through you. But you don’t always need to bring up where it has been wrong.

Now, if you are dealing with people who have been disconnected from the Body and it is largely because of issues of teaching or misuse of ministry, that can be a place to acknowledge that the Church has not always gotten things right.

Likewise, people coming out of seminary, a new believer is probably not caring at all about the name of John Calvin or what the Hebrew really means.

We must stay in a place of effectiveness. Not merely preaching from our own interests but being a conduit between God and the one in front of us.