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Monday, May 27, 2013
What is My Ministry Calling?
Over the next few days I am going to unpack several ways you know.
1. A Ministry That Energizes Me. (Ministering Out of Our five percent. 85% of every thing you do anyone can do, 10% of what you do only you and a few others can do, but there is a 5% figure that represent only what you can do. No one else in the whole world can do what only God created you to do).
When we pursue our calling, it will energize us rather than wear us out. That doesn’t mean that our calling can’t burn us out, it can. But it takes a lot more to burn us out when we are pursuing the ministry that God designed us to pursue.
2. A Ministry That I Do as a Servant, Not a Volunteer
We have already seen that volunteers are willing, while servants are compelled. The biblical picture of a servant is a powerful image. In the Old Testament Jews could be sold into slavery to other Jews, and under certain conditions they could be set free. However, if a slave chooses to remain one of his master’s slaves rather than living in freedom, he or she became a bond slave. The slave is now bonded to their master out of love for their master.
In Romans 1:1 The Apostle Paul introduces himself as a Bond Servant of Jesus Christ. When we discover our calling to ministry we become bonded, as a result we are compelled to pursue our calling out of love for our Lord.
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