“A ministry doesn’t fail overnight—it fades where prayer stops, structure cracks, or purpose is lost. Ministry Can Live As Well As It Can Die.”

“Let Reuben live, and not die” Deuteronomy 33: 6 KJV

Ministry can live and ministry can die. Ministry is born and could also undergo various degrees of termination or abortion. Ministry could suffer a miscarriage.
Ministry can be a victim of various agents of viruses and diseases.
There are many factors that determine the healthy living or painful death of a ministry. starting from this chapter part, I aim to expose such to you.
Many of you might be asking, what do you mean by ministry is born? Well think about the implication of this scripture:

“TO EVERYTHING there is a season, and a time for every matter or purpose under heaven: A time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to pluck up what is planted, A time to kill and a time to heal, a time to break down and a time to build up, A time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance, A time to cast away stones and a time to gather stones together, a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing, A time to get and a time to lose, a time to keep and a time to cast away, A time to rend and a time to sew, a time to keep silence and a time to speak, A time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace.” Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 AMPC

Being born means it has an inception. Being born means it has a starting point. Being born means it has a beginning.
Every ministry has an encounter point that birthed that ministry. It was never there, it is just like a human being that at some point in time never existed, then there came a conception and viola, a child is born. Likewise, the characteristic of ministry is that, it has a starting point. It has a beginning, Ministry Can Live As Well As It Can Die.

Also, ministry can die if not properly taken care of.
Ministry can be deliberately or unintentionally aborted.
Ministry can die in the process of birth.
Ministry can even die right after birth due to mismanagement of some factors. When we say “Let your ministry live and let it not die” it speaks of a possibility if not taken care of properly. One’s ministry can die prematurely.
One’s ministry can die due to various kinds of environmental viruses.
One’s ministry can die due to the lack of excellent administration of some things.

You have to begin to see ministry as a living being and the potential of death and life is highly the responsibility of the receiver of such ministry.

Church growth and church health experts says: most church ministries die (close down) within the first 10 years of starting, and a lot more that survive that stage, fizzle by the time they approach 15-20 years, due to economic, social, governmental, but most especially, causes that springs up within the church, it’s leadership and membership.

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