Keeping the Adventure in Ministry
July 1, 1996
Another meeting. A repeated complaint. Too little sleep. Not enough money.
Add them together, and even a noble calling can begin to feel humdrum. How
do you keep the wonder and excitement in ministering for God?
Leadership put that question to Jill Briscoe, a grandmother of nine
and someone who shows amazing vitality in ministry. When World Relief needs
someone to bring Christian encouragement and teaching to refugees in Croatia
or the killing fields of Cambodia, it often sends Jill Briscoe. When ministers
and their spouses want biblical teaching and a spiritual boost, they often
invite Jill Briscoe.
"The best thing I can do for my world and for those I love," she writes,
"is to be wise, fearing God, laughing at the Devil, working my head off to
see God's kingdom come. I live for his work, his honor, his smile, because
I love him."
Jill was educated at Homerton College in Cambridge and taught in the British
school system. She worked with rough street youth in Liverpool, through
Capernwray Missionary Fellowship. She and her husband, Stuart, moved to the
U.S. in 1970. Since then, he has served as pastor of Elmbrook Church in
Brookfield, Wisconsin; she is lay adviser to the church's women's ministry
and a director of "Telling the Truth" media ministry. She has written more
than forty books and is editor of Just Between Us, a magazine for
ministry wives and women in ministry.
You wrote once that you want to "avoid sounding like a broken evangelical
record." What prompted you to write that?
Briscoe: It's easy to get on the speaking circuit, as I am, and begin to sound like a broken record. You can become known for a certain talk, and in the end you could give the talk in your sleep. Stuart said right at ...
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