Hell's Kitchen

Tonight is the season Finale of Hell's Kitchen. For those of you that haven't seen it, the show consists of one of the greatest chefs in the world, Gordon Ramsay, trying to teach aspiring chefs to cook to his level. Although I don't like the 4-letter words often coming out of Ramsay's mouth, I do like what he is trying to accomplish. He wants these chefs to achieve as much as he has, while always maintaining the highest quality. He tells them, "your cooking, but my standards". He won't let anything go out of his kitchen unless it meets his extremely high standards.

When it comes to Ministry, we can learn a lot from Gordon Ramsay. No, not the 4-letter words. What we can learn is to always set our standards to the highest possible level. It is so easy to just do something so-so. But, when we go down that path, we start to do things without really caring about the final product. As long as we get something out, we are ok. That is just not good enough. Gordon Ramsay would never let anything so-so go out of his kitchen and we should never let something so-so go out to our church. Gordon Ramsay has his standards high and all he is trying to please are his customers. We should set our standards just as high as we try to please the God of the Universe. So, the next time we are sending out, to our church, something the equivalent of an overcooked steak or an under cooked risotto, lets send it back for a recook and only serve the best to our church for the glory of our Savior.