Intervention

A new look for church ministry. At the place where the Kingdom of God and the world meet is an edge on which people live. They meet there because the Kingdom keeps probing the dark for some soul to save. These lost souls are exposing themselves to the light because the power of God is working in them, calling them. I was and am glad that God has people who were “dark destroyers”, people who came and got me for Christ. For me it was much more like intervention than charity.

Today “charity” is associated with the collection of money and then giving that money to needs. Charity seems to focus on meeting the needs. Intervention focuses on a person, a family, life. At first when we read the Bible and look at the life of Jesus it seems like He was doing charity, but maybe what He was truly doing was intervention.

A&E television has a show called intervention. Below is the text that introduces the content of the show. Maybe it is prophetic for the church.

Intervention™ is a powerful and gripping television series in which people confront their darkest demons and seek a route to redemption. The Intervention Television series profiles people whose dependencies on drugs and alcohol or other compulsive behavior has brought them to a point of personal crisis and estranged them from their friends and loved ones.

– A&E Television

Compare that to the definition of intervention to charity.
Intervention
the act of intervening, especially a deliberate entry into a situation or dispute in order to influence events or prevent undesirable consequences
Charity
--an organization that collects money and other voluntary contributions of help for people in need
--money, materials, or help voluntarily given to people in need
What if in the days ahead we do want we see the Father doing so that everything we do is direct and intervening. We do not just do ministry but minister to people, personally, taking action for each one.