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Work vrs Business
We live in a day when there is a lot of confusion about the work of the ministry compared to the business of the ministry. If you feel you have an important calling and gift, there is a process of marketing and sales that is often taught as the way to open doors for your ministry opportunities, indeed, many denominations serve that very function, by allowing exchange of lists of performers and those requiring a performance.
I don't mean to devalue a ministry service, but there is little difference today in the process of booking a play, a band, or a preacher, and so often the process becomes the tradition and the tradition becomes the impediment between fulfilling your call in God by being led of God and going with the flow.
We are not to be self promoters, yet some ministries are in the daily business of marketing themselves, and that can lead to idolotry, having persons admiration because of advantage.
I think grandma can bake a pie or two, kindly giving to those that have less, building relationships and loving those that have less, and do a greater ministry than making a pie factory that distributes into several states with the picture of some old lady on the box.
I think the work of the ministry should not be the business of the ministry, in the traditional sense.
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