I’m going to try a new approach to this whole blog deal. I’m going to try short blurbs with the occasional dissertation on things that happen to be on my mind. I think this will be a more effective approach to give me more consistency. I got this idea from my brother. So with that said, here’s my first thought of this new approach.

I have thought about this topic many times before but never really had the notion to talk about it until now. It came to my mind while I was watching a pastor on TV talk about how he KNEW he was called into Full-Time Ministry. He knew beyond of a shadow of a doubt (whatever that terminology means) that he was supposed to be a preacher. There is nothing necesarily wrong with this statement, I have made it before too but what is wrong is when we make this statement out of a sense of arrogance, which I have done before as well. As a pastor, I feel that the arrogance in the statement comes into play when we feel like this is the only profession/service that anyone can be “called” into. So many times I think pastors make “lay” people feel so unworthy, they make them feel as if what they are doing will never be as important as Full-Time ministry (which by the way we are ALL full-time ministers) and I feel a sense guilt that I have possibly made someone feel this way. I truly believe that people can have just as strong of a conviction and calling to be a teacher, mechanic, stay-at-home-mom, butthole (jk, although some people appear to be “called” to this), waitress, barista, business man, etc, etc, etc. So whatever it is we are “called” to let’s just do it WHATEVER IT TAKES to make Jesus’ name famous and not ours because all callings are equally as important as the next no matter how someone may have made you feel/think in the past.

Thoughts?