So I'm learning that ministry is mostly about the things that you do that are not seen. I mean, I think that we hear that all the time....but to really be living it is another thing. Nobody sees the extra 2 hours that you do cleaning up after an event. Nobody sees the time and effort and sometimes frustration that it takes to plan something.....pretty much the only thing that people do see is you on Sunday, all dressed up and looking so clean you couldn't have possibly been cleaning out the dirty basement closet the night before.
I was talking with my friend today about how people only view those in a position within a specific ministry, or those in a pastoral vocation as being in the ministry....however...I do not understand that mentality. Feeding the sheep is an important job, but not every single person within the body can be a shepherd....we need the others....those who serve by being cashiers, those who work long hours doing something that they don't necessarily like...but do it as though it was unto the Lord. Living godly lifestyles within the world, I think, is a harder ministry then actually being IN the "ministry". It's a greater witness for you to show them God's love then for me to just tell them it.
Can I encourage you....that if you are working at a normal job, with normal people, putting in normal hours, in your normal life.....there is something great in just that.....be all that you can be through the power of Christ in EVERY circumstance. Be the light in the darkness....because most often, as pastors, we get stuck not as the light in the darkness...but being the candle lighter for flames that have gone out....or by helping to grow that already burning flame. Plant the seeds, and be proud....because you are not merely mediocure....and are too doing ministry maybe it's not in the context of a church....but yours is greater....because it's in LIFE.
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