Good day my fair friends! I send greets and more importantly prayers to those who read my posts. I appreciate all of you and hope that someday we may have these conversations in person. Who knows maybe I will marry one of you……..oh wait I am already married to one of you………which one could it be!!!????
So we begin with the story of me since we last met. I have began to minister to the teens at church as part of my ministrial prep. It has been going great and I appreciate them all very much. The thing that has changed the most is that I went into the process thinking, “hummm, what can I learn from this to help me be an all around minister in the church?” That I have found out is not the true reason for this process. My job as a pastor in the Christian church (Which I became when God called me to ministry) is to minister to the needs of the church. So teens are where its at. I have a gift to minister to the young people around me. Now my call is not to full time youth ministry. I dont feel that call but if God needs the gifts and abilities to minister to teens. Well get along little doggie I shall minister. I hope that make sense. Well all that said. I meet with my mentor through this process we were discussing my discouragement with the process and basically this whole process is mans way of making sure you are called. I need to show through my fruits that I am called to minister full time in the Free Methodist Church. When you receive a call to full time ministry from the Lord from that point on you are viewed in His mind as a pastor to His people. So in your everyday life as you go through the process you are a pastor to everyone around you. So basically I am going full force at ministering to the teens and young adults for the Lord and doing what He would have me do.
Ok sorry to get on a soapbox there for a second but that is what has been happen in my ministry life. Personally I am trying to be the husband that God called me to be 6 years ago. I fail often but God has provided a woman of God to help me through the process of marriage. I try to be a better man daily and i try not to beat her as much……haha…….No really I try to be the man of God that she expects of me. It is a process and i will get there someday but with God’s directing and my obedience I can be the man I know I can be.
Well in closing God bless all of you and my prayer is that through these post I can help you to live to your God given potential in all you do. God Bless
2 Comments
November 15, 2006 at 10:42 pm
Hey remember thats where the “real” call comes from. Those of us that are called to be ministers and husbands are first called to the relationship of family then that of the church. If we can not manage the first we do not stand a chance at managing the second. Keep up the good work! I’m proud of you brother and I miss you and Erin a lot.
February 13, 2007 at 5:56 am
except that maybe you are because, clearly, you haven’t written anything since November.
Hope you’re well regardless.