If the Shoe Doesn't Fit ...
Theme of the Week: Go with Your Gifting
Monday, January 12, 2009
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Key Bible Verse: "I do not whisper obscurities in some dark corner so no one can understand what I mean" (Isaiah 45:19). Bonus Reading: 1 Corinthians 12:27, 29-30
A man had come a thousand miles to a layman's conference I was also attending. In a counseling interview he told me that he was at his wit's end. For six years—ever since he'd become a Christian—he'd been in turmoil about whether or not he should go to seminary and become a pastor. He was part of a family-owned business in which he was doing very well. And as we talked it was clear that he enjoyed his work.
I stepped out on a limb and told him, "I think I can solve your problem."
"How?" he asked, amazed and hopeful.
I asked about his grades in college. Then we make a quick call to the seminary he wanted to attend. That call revealed that with his grades there was no way he'd be accepted as a divinity student there. He said that was the only place he'd want to go to.
"Then your problem is solved," I told him. "Go home and continue being God's man in business."
He did, and several years later wrote and told me how happy he was as a businessman trying to witness for his Lord. But he could have saved himself six years of misery by some commonsense checking of his alternatives.
—Keith Miller in The Edge of Adventure
My Response: What is wrong with viewing "full-time ministry" as the ultimate best for any Christian?
Adapted from The Edge of Adventure (Word, 1974) by permission.
Copyright © 2009 by the author or Christianity Today International/Men of Integrity magazine.
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