I Want to Be...  

Posted by Matt

...a pastor someday. I want to use the talent God gave me--which is mainly the spiritual gift of running my mouth--to entertain, read, study, and preach to people.

I want to talk about Jesus and how we fit into Him for a living.

Who knows...maybe God's just crazy enough to tell me to help Him plant a church someday.

I've simply got to confess that, as an English teacher, the most important things I have to share with people don't end up on my test. While The Great Gatsby is important stuff, he stuff I want to talk to people about is ultimately and infinitely more important.

Pray for me...and pray for the people who end up with me in front of them, teaching. I honestly have no idea what God's timetable for this change in my vocation is, but all I know is that it's "not yet."

1 comments

garret donovan   says July 30, 2008 at 11:28 AM

I have had this same goal for a long time too. Not a head pastor, I don't think I could do that very well, but I know that I need to do youth ministry. I have come to grips with the fact that that means humble living, and that doesn't even bother me. All I know is that if I'm not doing youth ministry I'm depressed, it reminds me of the Jeremiah verse:

But if I say, "I will not mention him or speak any more in his name," his word is in my heart like a fire, a fire shut up in my bones. I am weary of holding it in; indeed, I cannot. -Jer. 20:9

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