Before I was married, I thought I was called to the ministry. It's a long, convuleted story, but when I asked a pastor I was under at the time after getting out of the Army, I didn't get any encouragement on it. Instead, when asked if he would help with advice or mentorship, he told me "I'm not really one of those shepherding pastors." So I left that church, obviously.
It was a bit of a hard pill to shallow to have life circumstances and lack of opportunities get in the way of explicit Christian ministry, but when God gives you lemons, you make lemonade. And when God gives you snakes, you make antitoxins. Those couple of years of consistantly hard biblical/theological study that led in a different direction were not without a reason. That and some bad church situations prior to 2020 (where everyone got to see it) broke me of an agnostic worldview that saw anything other than explicit Christian ministry as a waste of time in the very least.
Before I was married, I thought I was called to the ministry. It's a long, convuleted story, but when I asked a pastor I was under at the time after getting out of the Army, I didn't get any encouragement on it. Instead, when asked if he would help with advice or mentorship, he told me "I'm not really one of those shepherding pastors." So I left that church, obviously.
It was a bit of a hard pill to shallow to have life circumstances and lack of opportunities get in the way of explicit Christian ministry, but when God gives you lemons, you make lemonade. And when God gives you snakes, you make antitoxins. Those couple of years of consistantly hard biblical/theological study that led in a different direction were not without a reason. That and some bad church situations prior to 2020 (where everyone got to see it) broke me of an agnostic worldview that saw anything other than explicit Christian ministry as a waste of time in the very least.
Thank You, Pastor
"Say yes to the small things. If God has called you, those small things won’t stay small."
So true, regardless of what field God has called you to.