09/06/2025
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Don’t Lose Your Home While Building His House
There is a kind of busyness that looks holy,
but slowly hollows out the soul.
Ministry can make you feel important, needed, called, and used by God.
But what if, in serving the church, you're quietly losing your first congregation?
You prepare setlists, lead rehearsals, join meetings, fix cables, and craft transitions.
You give your heart to Sundays, but your family only gets the leftover hours, when your tired, distracted, and distant.
You pray for revival in the sanctuary, but have you forgotten to kneel beside your child’s bed?
You teach people to worship, but when was the last time you talked to your spouse?
God never asked you to neglect one altar to build another.
He never called you to set the church ablaze while your home grows cold.
Ministry should never be an escape from responsibility.
Your spouse is not your assistant.
Your children are not burdens to manage between services.
They are your first sheep. Your most sacred trust.
The first worshippers you are called to disciple.
Before you hold the mic, hold your family’s hands.
Before you lead worship, lead your home in prayer.
Before you minister to the crowd, minister to the ones waiting for you at the door.
Jesus did not die for you to build a platform—
He died so your whole household could be saved.
If you gain the applause of the church, but lose the hearts of your children,
you did not win in ministry. You lost your calling.
So go home after service.
Be present. Be soft. Be available.
Laugh around the table. Listen to their hearts.
Love them with the same passion you bring to the pulpit.
Because your family is not in the way of your ministry.
They are the ministry.
