{"id":420,"date":"2025-02-11T18:10:48","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T19:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bergcom-engineering.com\/?p=420"},"modified":"2025-03-19T11:14:58","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T11:14:58","slug":"keeping-the-main-thing-the-main-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bergcom-engineering.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/11\/keeping-the-main-thing-the-main-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping the Main Thing the Main Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Do you find yourself judging other ministries? I do.<\/p>\n

The confusion seems to arise from the tension between form and function. Some leaders seem to \u201cworship\u201d their church programs which unjustly<\/em> offends me.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s Jesus\u2019 church and scripture warns us against our personal judgement of others. However, that judgement can be useful if we\u2019re wise enough to turn it back onto ourselves. I find that I sometimes confuse disciplemaking processes with the master disciplemaker.<\/p>\n

This has bothered me for several days. I just finished writing a book on heart attitudes in church planting. In the process I realized that my disciplemaking forms have occasionally crowded the Holy Spirit out of the process. A case of elevating form over function.<\/p>\n

This morning my friend, Larry Walkemeyer pointed out five things necessary for fruitful ministry. They come from Jesus\u2019 words in John 14, \u201c<\/em>Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father.<\/em> Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask me<\/em>\u00a0anything in my name, I will do it.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Larry is a preacher so each of these begins with the letter, A\u2026<\/p>\n