I was challenged with this question after reading Craig Groeschel's post on the swerve blog called "cool is no longer cool."  I was hit with the question, what are we committed to?  I'm a big advocate for creating creative fun environments for our middle school students and doing catchy fun lessons and we have done are fair share of stupid videos.  I do have to ask myself were we just getting it done?

The base of any ministry is Christ.  How close is the leader to Him, is he or she leading others closer to Him?  How are we coming up with our great ideas, from others, books or an overflow of time spent with Him?  All questions that Craig raises in his post.

Some thoughts about getting it done and getting it done right -

1) Are we focussed on the task or the task giver?  I'm convinced that there has to be a balance here.  What happens, gets planned, talked about and everyone on board with should be a direct result of time spent with God.  Most bosses don't want you asking questions every 5 minutes and relying on them for everything, but God does.  We have to retrain ourselves to be more dependent on God.

2) Are we pointing people to the task or the task giver?  When we here about an event or service "I can't wait until I can do that again!"  it is really exciting, but the deal is that alone doesn't make our ministries successful.  I want people excited and coming back, but when someone is leaving for the night (or after a morning service) it would be better to hear them saying I can't wait to do (insert service opportunity, bible study, personal time with God, telling others about Christ, inviting my friends, repenting from sin, etc.)  If your mnistry results in someone coming closer to God you will see them back, or better yet you'll see them leading!

3) What is the task from the task giver?  What does God want us to do?  Come close to Him and let him work out the details, then work real hard to accomplish His details.

Matthew 6:33