What if I could have a vocation that both paid my bills and allowed me to minister as a part of a local fellowship of believers?
Would I still be compelled to live vocationally as a pastor?
This was an interesting question that came up in a conversation I had in my living room with a new found friend. Of course there’s a story line that isn’t being told which lead to this, but the story that follows is the story I am writing. It is a story of questions that I haven’t asked before, but are questions that aren’t new to me. Questions like:
What if Christians celebrated someone going into a “secular” vocation as much as they did a “ministry” vocation?
What if the goal of pastors was less about recruiting people for ministry within the church, but about empowering people for ministry within their spheres of influence?
It’s funny the questions you ask yourself in life. Just a short trip into my personal journals finds me amused for hours. (yes…I do keep a journal, and it isn’t my blog.) Some of those questions I asked seem trivial and trite, but in retrospect, the very fact I was asking those questions led me to journey for answers.
And journey I have…
And journey I continue…