"Disneyland is something that will never be finished," Walt Disney once said. "Something that I can keep developing, keep plussing (i.e., improving), and adding to. It's alive. It will be a living, breathing thing that will need change ... Things will get more beautiful each year ... Disneyland will always be building and growing and adding new things ... Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world."
The same should be said for ministry.
Your ministry may not look like the Pirates of the Caribbean, or the Haunted Mansion, or Space Mountain (although it may feel that way at times!), but your ministry should always - always! - be developing, plussing (a slang word that Walt Disney himself made up), being added to, building, growing, and changing, all in ways that will bring more and more people to the feet of Jesus Christ. Your ministry should be a living, breathing thing, and it should give life to others. Your ministry should never be completed, but instead be in a state of continual growth.
Walt Disney wasn't a pastor, but his words and vision can go a long way toward growing and impacting churches and ministries all around the world.
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