“What’s in it for me?” is a question asked in business. What is the return on investment? Although it may not be verbalized, people in the church often ask the same question. Whenever we engage in ministry with the marginalized, step outside the doors of the church or offer help to the impoverished, or take off to some other part of the country or world to serve, someone is thinking, “What’s in it for us?” One answer can be found in one of my favorite passages in the Book of Acts. The church at Antioch is doing well. God is blessing. People of varying ethnic and social backgrounds are responding to the Gospel, they are involved in spirited worship of God, and they are impacting their community. In Acts 13, we read these words. “Now in the church at Antioch there were prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen a member of the court of Herod the ruler, and Saul. While they were wor...
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