I recently sat down with a couple of ladies from my church for a planning session to discuss vision for the children’s ministry. The agenda was simple. We were to spend time with God in his Word and prayer as He revealed how we were to move forward. It sounds easy enough but what I found that morning is how hard it was to separate methods from revealations that are God inspired. The methods were easy to discuss but to stay focused on solely what God was leading was quite hard. God tells us to rely on Him. Since that morning, I have begun really evaluating how much I am relying on methods as opposed to God. Now, I am not saying that methods are wrong because that is not the case. Methods are very important but they shouldn’t be first. William Edgar from Westminster Theological Seminary is quoted as saying “When we are properly communing and conversing with the living God, we will do a great deal of good on this earth. When we love God as we should, we will love our neighbors as well. Paradoxically, those who are most devoted to God are often the most productive in the world.” We cannot separate our time spent with God and our service for the kingdom through our local churches and missions. Everything we do in Christ has to have come from communing and conversing with a living God.

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