Energy experts have been on a decades-long quest for clean, efficient alternatives to traditional fossil fuels. The relatively untapped natural resources of wind, solar, hydropower, and geothermal energy have companies scrambling to secure power above, on, and below the earth’s surface.
What if I told you there’s a spiritual resource just below the surface in your church that, if tapped into, can produce great spiritual power?
I’m talking about harnessing God’s gift of widows.
ASSETS, NOT ANTIQUES
When most pastors and church members think of widows, their minds immediately go to the Christian’s responsibility to care for them (James 1:27), and rightly so. Jesus had a heart for widows. But he did not see them simply as vulnerable people in need of care, but also as examples of active service to the Lord.
The first encounter with a widow in the Gospels is Anna. Luke tells us she “did not leave the temple, serving God night and day with fasting and prayers” (Luke 2:37). She was one of the first to proclaim the Christ-child as the redeemer of God’s people.
Jesus used the example of widows to teach his disciples about proper worship to God. Sitting in the temple, he
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