The Ripple Effect in Business and Ministry

In our numbers-obsessed culture, there's a tendency to devalue the work that we do if we don't hit some arbitrary goal that we've defined as "success."

However, since our work has the potential to make an eternal impact but we don't have the ability to see that potential impact, we risk thinking God can't use us to accomplish great things.

A helpful way to combat this, I think, is with the so-called ripple effect. The concept is simple. A skipped stone hits the water in one spot, but the impact reverberates across the surface of the water in a beautiful pattern. It's one of those "little things" that has become normal to us, despite how awesome it is.

However, there's also a great lesson to learn in life, business, and ministry.