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All of nature reflects God's glory. Just as a crystal glorify the
sun light through reflection, our lives lived to the full is the way
that man will glorify God. Eldredge 's Ransomed Hearts ministry
reawakens Christians and call them to be fully alive, in the tradition
of John Piper's Desiring God ministry. This leads to a good
measure for how effective is any ministry.
God calls us to live a full life, to do all that we can , by aligning
our will with His. Conversely, we can evaluate ministries that
draws people to God by asking how has a ministry enable man to be fully
alive.
We present a criteria for evaluating the importance of Christian
resources and the effectiveness of ministries: from the user's
perspective, and generalized to consider both man's role and God's
role. In light of the formulation of Desiring God Ministry, we
ask: how is God glorified, and how is man fully alived.
The measure of a ministry is then, how do they interact with one's
life, and how strongly they impact people. This is what we mean by
integration of life and faith.
When we read an article, does it talk about practical and proven
accounts, or does it merely reiterate theories? When we listen to
a sermon, or a message at a retreat, is it merely the biased account of
a single person, (who are likely to be successful in ministry), or does
it have the supporting voice of multitude accounts, (like Dr Laura's
presentation of many people's experiences)?
In Ministry-Technologies, as in Consumer Reports, we should present
recommendations and reviews of ministry by first explaining our
evaluation method, for that is as important as reporting the detail
analysis of the ministries themselves.
Why do we focus on pointing to good resources? Because that would
allow us to leverage our strengths on find the best reviews and
tutorials, and help people more effectively, with more impact, than if
we had built the resources from scratch.
When you don't know anything about a subject, it is best to listen to
good experts in that field, and make up your mind based on their
tutorials. So rather than being an expert in all fields, we can
let different people be the experts, and point people to these
resources.
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