give it away.

The following is a reply from Steve Sellers to a question about Campus Crusade's biggest ministry opportunity:

"I think the greatest opportunity for us as an organization is in giving the ministry away.

I feel God is calling us to take all that we have and using it to empower others to do ministry.

Home Depot has the saying, "You can do it, we can help." I often think about how that phrase applies to us.

Too often we think of ministry as what we do. But what we ought to do is work with others and tell them, "You can minister, we can help."

The question then becomes, "How do we give the ministry away? How do we help people own it so when they are out in the workplace, campus and inner city, they minister to those around them?"

Instead of just thinking about what we do as staff members and how the professionals do ministry, we need to make it simple, motivational and exciting so the average person is able to take the lead and do it on their own.

Right now, with the economy the way it is, people are worried about home foreclosures. Their families are struggling, people can't make their payments and they're losing their jobs.

We can try to run out and do more ministry, but we can only do so much on our own. The real answer is to help people learn how to minister to those around them who are going through these trials.

Campus Crusade for Christ has about 500,000 donors who give regularly to the ministry. Instead of thinking about how we can make our 5,000 staff members more effective, we need to enlist 500,000 people in ministry and help equip them to minister in the context that God has placed them in."