When I was in college, I took several semesters of archery. I really loved shooting arrows at targets, but what ultimately won me over was the nature of archery; you immediately know how you are doing, based on where you hit the target. Still, there was one time that I hit a bulls eye, which scored a zero because I was aiming at the wrong target! In some ways ministry is like archery...

What would happen if we had massive persecution hit our country? What would you do if all the structures were taken away, priests/bishops murdered, resources seized? Would we grow or would we shrink? I would argue...