
Ministry: The Wrong Person
Have you ever noticed that in God’s ministry strategy the wrong person is often the right person?

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About the Host

Ron Deal
Ron L. Deal is one of the most widely read and viewed experts on blended families in the country. He is Director of FamilyLife Blended® for FamilyLife®, founder of Smart Stepfamilies™, and the author and Consulting Editor of the Smart Stepfamily Series of books including the bestselling Building Love Together in Blended Families: The 5 Love Languages® and Becoming Stepfamily Smart (with Dr. Gary Chapman), The Smart Stepfamily: 7 Steps to a Healthy Family, and Preparing to Blend. Ron is a licensed marriage and family therapist, popular conference speaker, and host of the FamilyLife Blended podcast. He and his wife, Nan, have three sons and live in Little Rock, Arkansas. Learn more at FamilyLife.com/blended.
Episode Transcript
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Ministry: The Wrong Person
Air date: January 30, 2025
Ron: Have you ever noticed that in God’s ministry strategy the wrong person is often the right person?
Announcer: For FamilyLife Blended®, here’s Ron Deal.
Ron: If you are like me you’ve felt inadequate to lead a ministry. I don’t know enough. I’m not the right person. I don’t have a personality for that. These are all things I’ve said to myself. I hear similar things from couples especially after I challenge them to do something like start or lead a stepfamily class or small group in their church. “We don’t know what we are doing,” they say.
You know what? I say that is perfect because God’s strength is always perfected in our weakness. In God’s economy, being the wrong person makes you the right person. Starting a small group? You can do it. Let us help. For FamilyLife Blended I’m Ron Deal.
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