God wants your ministry to flow from the realization that you are a beloved child of God. In that place you don’t worry too much about how people see you. You don’t worry too much about whether they’re nice or mean. You don’t even worry about whether they love you or hate you. You don’t worry because you’re simply going to love them and love Him. This comes from knowing who He is and what He thinks of you. This is what it means to grasp you are a child of God.

Ministry is not about where you are or where you go, it is about where He is.

Union and Communion: this is the essence of Christianity.

But Jesus always leaves the ninety-nine to chase after the one. He always searches for the one lost coin.

If you stand, worship, and love God in the midst of lack and difficulty, you will never lose

Why go to the ends of the earth if you have nothing to give?

If God is not with us, we do not want to continue. If the Sermon on the Mount is simply impractical, our mission work is hopeless. We have no backup plan. We have nothing but Him.