Today I'd like to talk about our motivation for ministry. As I look around us it seems that people are basically motivated either by fear or by love.
Fear is a negative motivator.
If we fear the consequences of disobedience we may chose to obey. We obey the speed limit out of fear of the consequences. The threat of punishment is the power behind all law. This was true of the Mosaic Law that the children of Israel were under. They knew that if they did not keep the law they would be disinherited and cut off from their people.