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Saturday, September 21, 2013

It doesn't make sense!

I have been sad to travel around and see churches starting programs based on ideas they did not think of. Jim Collins calls them silver bullets. Hoping it will be the answer, the answer is what does God want you to do? It won't make sense....really. 
 
One of the disconcerting things about ministry passion is that it often doesn’t make sense. For example, it didn’t make sense that the former presidential cabinet member, Chuck Colson, start a new Prison Ministry.  Sure he spent a short time in prison for his part in the Watergate scandal, but with his credentials it made much more sense for him to start a ministry for “up & outers” rather than “down & outers.”

In his book Born Again, he says that many of his friends tried to talk him out of investing his life in a ministry to prisoners.  But Colson’s passion was inexplicably stirred by those who are in prison. God’s call to ministry does not have to make sense, (and often it doesn’t); it just has to stir our passions.

Ask yourself this, does it stir your passion...your passion. I have a passion to mentor young leaders...I can do it in the church, in the street or in a business, nothing sacred about doing it a church, in fact Jesus would tell you to be in the world...

1 comment:

The Navy Christian said...

Excellent post! I find myself often in the same situation with ministry to the Navy sailors. As a sailor, my passion is naturally drawn to mentoring other sailors. However, that doesn't seem to fit very well in my local church setting. I cannot let that deter me, but must simply continue on with what God is placed on my heart. Thank you for this post, it helped me a great deal.

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