7. A ministry that’s effective is backed by
prayer.
He says, “Join me in my struggle [how?] by praying to God for me. Pray that I may be rescued from the unbelievers in Judea and that my service in Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints there.
” He says we join in each other’s
ministry when we pray for each other’s ministry. You, as a part of the body of
Christ, need to pray not just for the area of ministry you’re in but you need
to pray for all the other ministries. Together, we’re a symphony. Everybody
plays their part. The tunes are the same but the sounds are different. An oboe
doesn’t sound like a flute and a flute doesn’t sound like a trumpet and a
trumpet doesn’t sound like a violin. But we’re all reading from the same score.
This
is our score. The Bible. It tells us that we’re to go out into the world and
we’re to attract, win, and develop members into mature models of Christlike
character and conduct and help them discover a ministry in the church and a
life mission in the world at each stage and segment of their lives. That’s our
plan. We’re all working toward it in various areas. Some people are on the
front end, the attraction end. Some people are at the welcoming stage. Some
people are at the incorporating stage, bringing them into Bible studies. Some
people are at the training stage. Some people are at the sending out stage.
Some people are at the going out stage. But all together, it forms a symphony
and makes us the body of Christ. He says we need to pray for each other.
Pastor Rick Warren
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