Why Your Ministry Matters on this edition of Truth and Love.

I'm Dale Johnson, and you're listening to Truth and Love, a podcast of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors,

where we seek to provide biblical solutions for the problems that people face.

This week on the podcast, I am joined with our Director of Operations, Sean Perron,

and we just want to have a conversation about the importance of your local church

and your involvement in that local church and why it is that your ministry matters.

As I think about local church ministry, I think about ACBC's involvement and responsibility

to equip and edify and strengthen what God is doing at the local church level.

To me, that is so absolutely crucial and necessary because we see

in the scripture that the church really is the primary institution that God in the New Testament

uses to propagate his gospel, to build his church, and to disciple those who have come to faith. And we have a responsibility

to guard the truth of God's word in that setting. And so, Sean, as we talk about the importance

of local church ministry and why it is that everyone who listens to this has a responsibility

to minister well in that

local body. There are a couple of things that we could talk about. I mean, we can go in a thousand

directions here, but a couple of things that I think are important that we flesh out. Part of the

importance of our ministry and why it matters at the ground level,

the interaction that we have on a daily basis with people,

Jesus says some things that are absolutely critical that make us aware of the reality

of why our ministry matters.

And one of the things that he talks about is that the world in which we live

in is filled with trouble. Now, what that means, in addition to our sinful disposition and us being

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