"A minister's job is not simply to preach on a platform, standing up in front of a crowd of people while a big film crew records the service. This is not our primary purpose. Our job is to love each person, one at a time, to stop and lend help every day for each of the suffering and the sick.
Some say, 'Can we love without money?' The answer is yes. And the simplest way to demonstrate love is to hold someone in your arms, to look them in your eyes, and to offer them a smile. How do you become good news to both the poor and the rich? How do you become love manifested in physical form and see His gospel fulfilled? If you are called as a missionary - a 'sent-out one' - then you are called to comfort those who mourn. You are called to love the broken until they understand God's love - a love that never dies - through you.
Yes, God wants you to do signs and wonders. But the love of God manifested through you is what people really need. So you must first see His face. You must become so close to His very heartbeat that you can feel what others feel. I want to live as if I am hidden in His very heart, where His thoughts become my thoughts and His ways become my ways. This is how we will reach the world."
- Heidi Baker, Compelled by Love
So hard yet so easy.
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