Danger exists when ministries fail to maintain the critical balance of faithful conviction to their beliefs and ambition in their ministry behavior.

It was William Carey who encouraged us to avoid complacency in ministry, by “Expecting great things FROM God; attempting great things FOR God.”

And yet equally devastating is when our ambition for ministry breadth leads us to abandon our core convictions of doctrinal depth.

As these two stalwarts of the faith caution,

“There are hours when the Church must say NO to those who should ask communion with her, in the doing of her work, upon the basis of compromise.”
– G. Campbell Morgan

“We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum.”
– A. W. Tozer

Please pray for the leadership of Empowering Action, in order that we might maintain this critical balance of being both faithful to our beliefs yet ambitious in our behavior.

And that we might embody this appeal of the Apostle Paul to the Church in Philippi,

“Only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of you that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind striving side by side for the faith of the gospel.” (Philippians 1:27)