21st Bus & Outreach Convention

Last evening, we returned from Lebanon, Pa where this years Bus & Outreach Convention was held. To me, this is the most valuable convention ever. It is always chuck full of practical ways to enhance your ministry in every area. From Sunday School, bus routes, pastoral and leadership, they have it covered. Each evening an evangelistic service is held. This years main speakers were Revs. Chris Cravens, Mark Mowery and Rick Maloyed. In recent weeks God has been helping me see some things. We seem to have gotten into a mindset in our holiness churches that church is about ministering to the saints. Encouraging them, loving them and refilling them with enough strength to make it back next week. While this is all part of it, the main responsibility of the church is to minister and serve this world with the life changing message of salvation. We sometimes focus so much on the saints we forget our responsibility to the sinner. If all we do is minister to ourselves and do not reach out and bring others in we become an unhealthy church and a failing church. This Bus Convention helped me to see this more real than ever before. My prayer is that God will help me to apply what we heard to our ministry at our church in a greater way that we will be the balanced and strong church God wants us to be.