Skye Jethani :: Where does our legitimacy come from?
From #thenines event, Skye Jethani asks, “Where does our legitimacy (in ministry and leadership) come from?”
So many good points. So worth the nine minutes.
If we were to take the things we measure our success by and apply them to the ministry of Jesus — a lot of times we’d have to conclude that he was a failure.
Quite often in ministry, people were leaving Jesus rather than coming to him. By the end of his earthly ministry there was no one left. He was abandoned by everyone. And yet his ministry was a success because he was completely faithful to his father….
We’ve got to get our attention off the tangible outcomes of our ministry as being evidence of our legitimacy and root it in something deeper. That something deeper is exactly what Jesus rooted his ministry in. Jesus said that his bread — what sustained his life — was to do the will of his father…
Jesus had his identity rooted in the fact that he was the beloved son of the father.
How different would our ministries be and our souls be and our joys be if we disconnected our legitimacy from the outcomes of our ministry and instead rooted our identity and legitimacy in the fact that we are sons and daughters of our loving father?
So where does your legitimacy come from? Is it the outcomes of your ministry or your identity in Christ?
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