I know the world is hungry for good ministry.
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It's not just being called to the ministry that counts.
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Even more important than what we do, then, is who we are.
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As long as I loved and served Christ I could be anything I wanted to be.
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I began to pray those same fervent prayers, lying in bed at night, hoping to see a scroll unrolled from the ceiling with a message from God just for me.
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Washington is a great international city and in the congregation we have people who are rich and poor, black and white, and from every part of the world.
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While I am the one who made the choice to enter the ministry, there was a choice before that one, the choice God made in calling me to be his in the first place.
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I dropped out of school for a semester, transferred to another college, switched to an art major, graduated, got married, and for a while worked as a graphic designer.
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I have to confess that there have been some times when I was less than glad to be a minister, and some Sundays still when I tremble under the weight of trying to speak a word for God.
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My father was a Presbyterian minister, working among the poor in West Virginia. He had taken what amounted to a vow of poverty when he accepted that call and so we never had much money.
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