A Job In Ministry IS Throwing Your Life Away...

...or at least it should be.

Sometimes I talk with people about how I work for a church and, underneath the polite "oh, ok"s and "interesting"s, lies another response.

"What a waste! You've got a perfectly good degree. But you're not using it. You could get another job with fewer hours, less stress and more pay. And you live miles from the rest of your family. And you're not even in a proper church with a building or a vicarage or where you get to be called Reverend. You tell people about Jesus as your job? We all do useful things like medicine or web design or manufacturing or teaching (actual teaching, not your Bible thing). It's a bit weird to be honest. You could have done so much better, surely! You're throwing your life away."

It's been a while since anyone put it that strongly but that's often the gist of the "what do you do?" conversation. But are they right?

In some ways, no. I wouldn't say I could do much 'better'. And it's an enormous privilege and joy to work with God's people for their good and the reaching of the world.

But in a massive sense...

YES! After all...

So throw your life away for God and the gospel. Do whatever you can for Him and you'll find that life begins once you give it to Jesus.

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