{"id":13241,"date":"2020-06-01T07:56:08","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T12:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/messagemagazinetesthome.wpcomstaging.com\/?p=13241"},"modified":"2021-08-17T19:48:18","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T19:48:18","slug":"ministering-in-a-post-covid-19-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openbiblemessage.org\/es\/2020\/06\/ministering-in-a-post-covid-19-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Ministering in a Post COVID-19 World"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">By Josh Grimes&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">If you would have told me&nbsp;three months ago&nbsp;that all churches throughout the world would&nbsp;cease&nbsp;meeting in&nbsp;public services,&nbsp;I would NOT have believed you. But&nbsp;then it happened. While&nbsp;churches are&nbsp;still able to&nbsp;reach out virtually, we,&nbsp;as leaders,&nbsp;desperately miss personal contact with our church families,&nbsp;and we have&nbsp;a lot of unanswered questions&nbsp;about&nbsp;what church might look like after the coronavirus&nbsp;runs its course. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I do not pretend to have all the answers;&nbsp;however, I want to share&nbsp;ideas&nbsp;from my heart&nbsp;about&nbsp;how to&nbsp;minister to our communities post COVID-19.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-black-color\"><strong>STAY CALM.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is easy to get anxious when&nbsp;we&nbsp;think about how things have&nbsp;changed&nbsp;and might change.*&nbsp;Some of you are facing some serious financial&nbsp;issues&nbsp;or&nbsp;grief over losses&nbsp;or&nbsp;an overwhelming weight of responsibility to right the ship you&nbsp;as a leader&nbsp;have been&nbsp;asked to sail so to speak.&nbsp;Keep in mind&nbsp;that&nbsp;it is God&#8217;s ship you are sailing and&nbsp;that&nbsp;He and He&nbsp;alone is responsible for it.&nbsp;Remember the&nbsp;exhortation&nbsp;from&nbsp;Scripture:&nbsp;\u201cDo not be anxious or worried about anything, but in everything [every&nbsp;circumstance and situation] by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, continue to make your&nbsp;[specific] requests known to God. And the peace of God [that peace which reassures the heart,&nbsp;that peace] which transcends all understanding, [that peace which] stands guard over your hearts&nbsp;and your minds in Christ Jesus [is yours]\u201d&nbsp;(Philippians 4:6-7,&nbsp;AMP).&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The exhortation ends in verse 13&nbsp;(NIV), which&nbsp;reiterates,&nbsp;\u201cI can do ALL things through&nbsp;him&nbsp;who gives me strength.\u201d&nbsp;God would not have you&nbsp;steering the ship if He did not feel that you&nbsp;were qualified! Remember, this&nbsp;crisis&nbsp;did not catch God by&nbsp;surprise,&nbsp;and&nbsp;He chose you, as a church leader,&nbsp;to steer the ship&nbsp;through&nbsp;these troubled waters.&nbsp;Therefore,&nbsp;STAY CALM and trust in the&nbsp;Lord to lead you as you lead others.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>STAY TRUE.<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is easy when things get tough for us to try&nbsp;to&nbsp;flex with the environment&nbsp;around us.&nbsp;If the Bible was true and relevant 2,000 years ago, it is still true and relevant today.&nbsp;We&nbsp;are living in a time when the&nbsp;Church as a whole has compromised truth in the name of relevancy. It&nbsp;is&nbsp;the&nbsp;tough times that reveal what we are really made of. Do not let your guard down.&nbsp;STAY TRUE&nbsp;to who you&nbsp;are and what you believe.&nbsp;The world might not like it, but it is not the world we live to&nbsp;please.&nbsp;Ultimately, I want to hear the Lord say to me, \u201cGood and faithful servant,&nbsp;I am pleased.\u201d&nbsp;Consequently, hold firm and stay true!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>STAY THE COURSE.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">God put a&nbsp;vision in your heart for the ministry you oversee.&nbsp;If this situation we face today did not take God by surprise, then God expects us to&nbsp;<strong>stay the course<\/strong>.&nbsp;That does not mean there will not be some things we do a little differently&nbsp;or&nbsp;that&nbsp;there will not be&nbsp;other opportunities for ministry&nbsp;that&nbsp;arise, but God still&nbsp;wants&nbsp;us to accomplish what&nbsp;He put before us.&nbsp;Before modern equipment, sailors would sail through&nbsp;rough seas&nbsp;by staying the course,&nbsp;navigating from the stars that stayed constant, unaffected by any weather below. Likewise, we must stay the&nbsp;course&nbsp;on which&nbsp;God has placed&nbsp;us and navigate by looking to Jesus, who is not affected by this virus. It has been said&nbsp;that&nbsp;how you start is&nbsp;not&nbsp;as important as how you&nbsp;finish. That is so true.&nbsp;Stay the course and finish your race.&nbsp;A time of crisis is NOT the time to&nbsp;make long-term life choices,&nbsp;but it is a time to hang on, stay the course, and trust God.&nbsp;As we do&nbsp;so,&nbsp;He will lead us.&nbsp;You can take that to the bank!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><em>God still&nbsp;wants&nbsp;us to accomplish what&nbsp;He put before us.&nbsp;Before modern equipment, sailors would sail through&nbsp;rough seas&nbsp;by staying the course,&nbsp;navigating from the stars that stayed constant, unaffected by any weather below. Likewise, we must stay the&nbsp;course&nbsp;on which&nbsp;God has placed&nbsp;us and navigate by looking to Jesus, who is not affected by this virus. It has been said&nbsp;that&nbsp;how you start is&nbsp;not&nbsp;as important as how you&nbsp;finish. That is so true.&nbsp;Stay the course and finish your race.<\/em>\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>CAPITALIZE ON OPEN DOORS.<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of my all-time favorite Bible&nbsp;teachers once said,&nbsp;\u201cNever waste a perfectly good problem.\u201d&nbsp;I remember thinking,&nbsp;\u201cHow can any problem be a good problem?\u201d&nbsp;He explained&nbsp;that a miracle can only happen when you have done all that you can do. Then,&nbsp;and only then,&nbsp;can&nbsp;something you cannot do&nbsp;occur, which is a miracle.&nbsp;\u201cSo,\u201d&nbsp;the minister said, \u201cwhen facing a&nbsp;problem too big for you to handle, start looking for&nbsp;your miracle!\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The&nbsp;COVID-19 crisis falls into&nbsp;this category. This pandemic is way too big for us to handle alone, so&nbsp;start looking for&nbsp;a&nbsp;miracle! If we will stop worrying and start looking, I think we will find that God is opening&nbsp;doors for us&nbsp;during&nbsp;and through the crises we now face.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Years ago I preached a sermon&nbsp;titled&nbsp;\u201cWhen&nbsp;Going&nbsp;through&nbsp;Hell,&nbsp;Do Not Stop&nbsp;and Shop.\u201d&nbsp;When we are going through&nbsp;a crisis,&nbsp;it is very easy to pick up anger, resentment, fear, anxiety, and other such things that we cannot afford.&nbsp;Have you ever gone through a grocery store, pulling things off the shelf, only to&nbsp;discover&nbsp;by the time you&nbsp;made it to the cashier&nbsp;that you did&nbsp;not have enough money with you to buy all of those things you&nbsp;stuffed into your cart? How embarrassing, right?&nbsp;Accordingly,&nbsp;when you feel like you are going through&nbsp;hell, do not stop and shop.&nbsp;Stay the course and look for the open doors that God provides&nbsp;because we serve a miracle-working God.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>CAPITALIZE ON OPEN HEARTS.<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During times of&nbsp;crisis people&nbsp;tend to&nbsp;do a lot of soul&nbsp;searching. Their hearts are more open for people to minister truth to them.&nbsp;Do not&nbsp;let this crisis go by and miss out on&nbsp;this chance to&nbsp;minister to people we might not&nbsp;ever have&nbsp;an&nbsp;opportunity to minister to again.&nbsp;This might even mean people in your own&nbsp;church! How?&nbsp;During times like these&nbsp;God opens the hearts of His&nbsp;people,&nbsp;lovingly&nbsp;influencing&nbsp;them to become&nbsp;Jesus\u2019&nbsp;hands and feet to a world&nbsp;in need.&nbsp;Remember the old&nbsp;promise that God gave to&nbsp;Joshua:&nbsp;\u201cEvery place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have&nbsp;given you\u201d&nbsp;(Joshua 1:3).&nbsp;Do you think that promise could&nbsp;be applied to the hearts you touch&nbsp;and not&nbsp;just the&nbsp;places you walk? I believe so, and I consistently ask God for those hearts.&nbsp;So do not waste a&nbsp;perfectly good crisis and miss capitalizing on the open hearts it helps produce!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>CAPITALIZE ON RESOURCES.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ask yourself: what would&nbsp;I&nbsp;do if money&nbsp;were&nbsp;not an issue?&nbsp;Do you remember the&nbsp;Scripture&nbsp;that assures us that our God owns the cattle on a&nbsp;thousand hills (Psalm&nbsp;50:10)? It simply means that God can afford it,&nbsp;period.&nbsp;I have found through&nbsp;experience that God gives us a vision before we see provision.&nbsp;Why? Probably because if we had&nbsp;provision before&nbsp;the&nbsp;vision, we might squander God\u2019s provisions on things that&nbsp;He&nbsp;has&nbsp;not lined up for us.&nbsp;So never underestimate God\u2019s ability to provide for&nbsp;that which&nbsp;He places in our&nbsp;hearts.&nbsp;The same teacher&nbsp;who&nbsp;told us not to&nbsp;waste a perfectly good problem also said,&nbsp;\u201cDo not wait for your miracle, but be willing to go looking for it.\u201d&nbsp;Sometimes miracles do not just fall into our laps, but&nbsp;if,&nbsp;in faith, we&nbsp;go looking for them, we will find&nbsp;them.&nbsp;Instead of simply waiting, which&nbsp;can cause discouragement,&nbsp;we can be&nbsp;searching&nbsp;for that miracle as we would search in a&nbsp;treasure hunt. Who does not like a&nbsp;good old treasure hunt?&nbsp;Therefore,&nbsp;when God places something on your heart (a&nbsp;vision), start the treasure&nbsp;hunt&nbsp;for&nbsp;how God can and will provide.&nbsp;Sometimes&nbsp;we find&nbsp;miracles&nbsp;when we are willing to open doors to look for them.&nbsp;If God&nbsp;guides, He will provide.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS HAVE FUN!&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Can I be open and honest with you? If you are not having fun&nbsp;doing ministry, then you are not doing it right! That does not mean that we will not have difficult&nbsp;moments or situations. That does not mean that we will not face opposition. Likewise, it&nbsp;does not mean&nbsp;we will like every part of ministry. However,&nbsp;overall, the ministry should be fun. We serve a&nbsp;God&nbsp;who is concerned with us,&nbsp;and He made a significant investment into our joy.&nbsp;People ask&nbsp;me questions,&nbsp;like&nbsp;\u201cDo you like what you do?\u201d&nbsp;I&nbsp;answer that question in two ways. First, if it were not fun, I would make it fun. Second, when you are in the middle of God\u2019s calling&nbsp;on your life, it is fun because you have His&nbsp;joy.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Years ago,&nbsp;while&nbsp;I was&nbsp;pastoring in Indiana,&nbsp;a&nbsp;local&nbsp;school principal asked me if I would consider helping the school out by being a substitute&nbsp;teacher. I&nbsp;thought this would be<em>&nbsp;<\/em>a great way to build relationships with the kids and to&nbsp;show them the love of Christ<em>.<\/em>&nbsp;Although most teachers I came to know loved being teachers,&nbsp;I will never forget&nbsp;a small group of teachers&nbsp;I overheard one day in the teachers\u2019&nbsp;lounge&nbsp;while eating&nbsp;lunch.&nbsp;They were&nbsp;complaining about the kids, the work, and everything else you can imagine. I remember feeling my&nbsp;own enthusiasm starting to wane. I&nbsp;thought, \u201cIf it is that bad, why are you even a teacher?!\u201d&nbsp;My curiosity and unbridled&nbsp;boldness led me to ask&nbsp;that very question.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not&nbsp;<em>one<\/em>&nbsp;person&nbsp;said&nbsp;it was&nbsp;for the&nbsp;money, the hours, or the benefits.&nbsp;Nearly&nbsp;all of them said&nbsp;things&nbsp;like&nbsp;\u201cfor the love of&nbsp;teaching,\u201d&nbsp;or&nbsp;\u201cbecause I love kids,\u201d&nbsp;or&nbsp;\u201cbecause I wanted to make a difference in kids\u2019&nbsp;lives.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I thought to myself, \u201cWhat changed?\u201d&nbsp;Thankfully, I was able to bridle my tongue and ponder their&nbsp;answers, but&nbsp;I remember thinking,&nbsp;\u201cLord, never allow me to lose the love for what I am called to do!\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Somehow&nbsp;these teachers&nbsp;had&nbsp;lost their first love,&nbsp;and&nbsp;that loss&nbsp;caused them to&nbsp;focus on secondary situations and circumstances. Have you lost your first love? Do you&nbsp;remember when the ministry was fun and exciting? If so,&nbsp;what changed? Or what needs to&nbsp;change for ministry to be fun for you again?&nbsp;I have been in ministry for more than 30 years, and I&nbsp;am having just as much fun today as I did&nbsp;when&nbsp;I preached my first sermon! Again, that&nbsp;does not mean I have not endured hardships or disappointments, but I can seriously say that the&nbsp;ups are far more pronounced and considerably outnumber the downs. Do not let the&nbsp;excitement fade.&nbsp;Return to your first love and make the ministry fun again.&nbsp;After&nbsp;this&nbsp;current&nbsp;crisis passes, and even&nbsp;while going through it,&nbsp;remember that&nbsp;\u201cthe joy of the Lord is&nbsp;your strength\u201d&nbsp;(Nehemiah 8:10).&nbsp;Will ministry look different in a post COVID-19 world?&nbsp;Yes, it probably will. But if we would focus on&nbsp;these seven things, we can and will make the best of it.&nbsp;I can honestly say that the best is yet to&nbsp;come&nbsp;because the greatest and most significant revival the world has ever experienced will&nbsp;happen in the last of the last days,&nbsp;and I,&nbsp;for one, want to be a part of it!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><sup>*If you suffer from depression or clinical depression,&nbsp;seek&nbsp;medical attention or other help. You should never feel shame or condemnation for seeking the help you need. God is concerned with your wellness.&nbsp;<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About the Author<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/messagemagazinetesthome.wpcomstaging.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Josh-Grimes-2019-600X800px.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13246\" width=\"286\" height=\"416\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em><em><em><em>Pastor Joshua Grimes has been in ministry for more than 30 years with over 25 of those years as a&nbsp;church planter and pastor.&nbsp;He&nbsp;now serves as the Regional Executive Director of Open Bible East. Pastor Josh has been married to&nbsp;Melissa,&nbsp;the love of his life,&nbsp;for 30 years and is the father of two adult children,&nbsp;Hannah Joy and Caleb. When not ministering,&nbsp;he&nbsp;can be found enjoying God&#8217;s creation by going on adventures&nbsp;with his wife and kids, enjoying nature, hunting, or riding his motorcycle.<\/em>&nbsp;<\/em><\/em>&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Josh Grimes&nbsp;&nbsp; If you would have told me&nbsp;three months ago&nbsp;that all churches throughout the world would&nbsp;cease&nbsp;meeting in&nbsp;public services,&nbsp;I would NOT have believed you. But&nbsp;then it happened. While&nbsp;churches are&nbsp;still able to&nbsp;reach out virtually, we,&nbsp;as leaders,&nbsp;desperately miss personal contact with our church families,&nbsp;and we have&nbsp;a lot of unanswered questions&nbsp;about&nbsp;what church might look like after the coronavirus&nbsp;runs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":17235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[69,149,187],"class_list":["post-13241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive","category-featured-articles","tag-covid-response","tag-jun20","tag-ministry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ministering in a Post COVID-19 World - Message of the Open Bible<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/openbiblemessage.org\/es\/2020\/06\/ministering-in-a-post-covid-19-world\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_MX\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ministering in a Post COVID-19 World - Message of the Open Bible\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By Josh Grimes&nbsp;&nbsp; If you would have told me&nbsp;three months ago&nbsp;that all churches throughout the world would&nbsp;cease&nbsp;meeting in&nbsp;public services,&nbsp;I would NOT have believed you. 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