Tomorrow night I get to hang out with some of the coolest people in the world—our volunteers here at NewSpring Church. These are the people who have sold out to the fact that everything in the church does not revolve around them—they know that we exist as a church to IMPACT this world for Christ…and every week they show up and go all out to make a difference.
When a person gets involved in ministry they just see things differently—God shows them that REAL people are walking around with REAL issues…and only meeting a REAL Jesus can help. I received the following e-mail from a friend who serves as a greeter this past week and was reminded that the more involved a person becomes in ministry the more they see the need for ministry…he said…
I wanted to tell you that I wasn’t prepared for what I saw while I was greeting yesterday. God humbled me like he never has before.
It is so easy to come to church and not really see the people around you. Standing at the front of the church doors looking everyone in the eyes as they walked in was a shock to me and I wasn’t expecting that. I don’t mean for this to sound silly, but you could feel the weight of the burdens that some of those people were carrying with them.
- The single dad that you could tell didn’t have enough to buy his little boy nice clothes, but loved him enough to get him dressed and bring him to church anyway.
- The old man that was wheel chair bound and had to come to church alone, but still came.
- The countless moms that I saw bringing their children to church without the dad.
- The kids that I saw with no parents with them.
- The couples that I saw that you could just feel that things weren’t all right.
I wasn’t expecting this. I thank God for humbling me. I saw Newspring from a different view and was changed by it.