If you're involved in doing the Lord's work, you probably know it's easy to lose sight of what's really important.

Here's Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth.

The goal in ministry is not to get more likes.

It's not to get more Twitter followers or Facebook friends.

The goal is to get his like, his well done, good and faithful servant.

This is the Reviver Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamud, co-author of You Can Trust

God to Write Your Story.

For July 26th, 2020, I'm Dana Gresh.

I'm Dan Gresh.

Do you think of yourself as a ministry leader?

Sometimes we use the word minister for someone who teaches or preaches God's word on a regular or maybe even a professional basis.

But at its most basic level, ministering simply means meeting the needs of someone else in the name of Jesus.

And that means we're all ministers in a sense.

So the message we're about to hear from Nancy is for all of us. She spoke to a group of

women's ministry leaders about being effective servants. Let's listen. I want to take some time today

for us to look at First Cicelonians too. I'd encourage you to take that challenge and go through

both those chapters. I've been reading the book repeatedly this week and just looking for what are the

characteristics of ministry that God uses and what are the characteristics of a person

that God uses in ministry.

Now just a little bit of context here.

On his second missionary journey, Paul and his companions took the gospel to Thessalonica,

or as I think they say in Greece today,

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