Jesus Principles (#17 in the Series)

"Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is a progress. Working together is success." ~Henry Ford

Today is National Administrative Secretaries Day and as I ponder this quote from Henry Ford I realized that this is true in marriage, church, and the work place. It is the working together that makes us successful. Anyone can come together for short periods of time. When we go to a restaurant we all come together and eat. We can come together at church and in essence we all come together to worship and eat. We even go to work for 8 hours plus. Many days we spend more time with those we work with than those we live with yet there is not much success personally or even perhaps corporately. Awe but when we begin to work together everything changes--mostly us. See in order to work together we have to listen to one another, submit to one another, take orders, give orders, want to quit and stay anyway and finish the job. When we get to down to the work of life whether it is your marriage or your ministry that's when we see what we are made of. 

I am doing a series at our local church called, "After the Cross". The disciples came together in the beginning, but keeping together was a process that many of them failed to finish. It wasn't until after Jesus's death and resurrection did the real work begin that brought success.

My husband and I have been to the Ford Museum. While there I learned Henry created a school his employees could attend to learn to read and write. He invested in his employees. One story even said he made his car affordable enough that each one of his employees could own one. At our church we make an effort to create an environment of growth and learning. We offer Leadership Articles, Leadership Books, tomorrow we have offered Leadership Training. However, each of us can be offered something but not all of us will take it.

Jesus offers eternal life but not all will accept. Jesus tells us to renew our minds daily, not all will. Jesus tells us to forsake not the gathering of ourselves together...but many don't.

"Life is a series of experiences, each of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward." ~Henry Ford

Ask Peter. Ask Paul. Ask John. March onward.

I am grateful for our secretary and staff at MFC, Ministries. Inc. Today I dedicate this blog to them. Thanks team for working together to bring success to our church, the community and the Kingdom.

Hebrews 10:24-25 (KJV) "And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:"