Ministry in spite of

Telling and owning all of our calling story

Abstract

Just like we know a good salvation story involves the lost person eventually being found, we know that a story of call “goes down better” when it concentrates on the positive attractions of and affirmations toward ministry. The challenges to the call, the hesitations, the doubts (be they self-induced or external), the things that we carry with us and minister in spite of—these things generally don’t get talked about, or at least not publicly. In this way, we rob ourselves and those with whom we minister of a broader sense of what it means to be called and how to live our calls out on a day-to-day basis. Witnessing to a dynamic sense of call brings a more honest, Spirit-led, and spiritually insightful form of ministry to the body, especially when it comes to ministry across a range of abilities.