Mark Galli’s “Inside CT” article in the current issue of CHRISTIANITY TODAY had a great thought I wanted to share:

Healthy Christian ministry assumes that… the lights go out in people’s lives with some regularity, and it is prepared to light candles. Yet some ministries seem shocked and appalled when the lights go out. They fumble for solutions and expend energy cursing the darkness of he surrounding culture.

At least it made me go, “Hmm…”