Comments on: ministry and vocation

By: ramtopsrac

ramtopsrac — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:46:55 +0000

Don’t have myself down as an intellectual, but the chaotic mish-mash of stuff that we do in ministry (and I’m only a lay minister with ‘P’ plates) is stimulating and frustrating at the same time. But God does honour it all by using us to do stuff for him – we have to hold on to that truth otherwise, as I know to my cost, the devil kicks us down.

By: jane

jane — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:24:12 +0000

Thanks for this Maggie – I hadn’t come across that one of Kim’s brilliant gems before – very good. Part of vocation and ministry is about valuing those humble things like moving the chairs and doing the photocopying and making sure the candles haven’t dripped everywhere. Sometimes though it is easier to value those humble tasks when otehrs are doing them than when you are doing them yourself. Valuing our ministry is also important.
Anyway thanks for writing this I too am thinking about vocation and reading you has been helpful.

By: David

David — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:56:03 +0000

I remember in vicar-ing days doing all the caretaker stuff too, and thinking that both the title ‘caretaker’ and just hanging around in church and seeing what/who happened had a lot going for them.