So far I’m really liking this book. Here is a question that made me think.

If you were asked to give a sermon at church how much time would you spend getting ready? Most of us would probably spend a fair amount of time. We would make sure what we are saying is correct. We would want to make sure it was Biblical. We would want to do a good job.

If you were asked to minister to a hurting friend how much time would you spend? I know I would spend more time working on the sermon than I would trying to minister to someone.

Often times I am very quick to give an answer and offer some quick advice. I have no problems blurting our advice to someone. This needs to change. I need to approach my role as a minister to others with a sense of gravitas. Helping and caring for others is not something to be taken lightly.

This book is helping me to see that we deal with very broken people. We are ourselves also very broken. That is how God works. He uses broken people as his instruments of change.