Beautiful story! I think we're all pretty clueless, stumbling through each step, until we look back at it all and marvel that God was willing to call us to begin with.
What happened to your "call to ministry" that makes it not even Christianity for you today? Was it a cultural call and not a spiritual call? Did you get hooked or were you called?
Umm…I don’t know which it was. I am a smidge on the autistic side, so I tend to be pretty concrete. I have always struggled with this notion of “calling”. What does that mean? That you’re confident that God is on board with…full-time ministry? But isn’t every believer living a sacred existence: full-time?
I didn’t grow up in Christendom; I got saved in high school —invited by a friend. My dad is an alcoholic, parents split up…I was attracted because these people had stable families and looked like they had their shit together. So my conversion was genuine; not a “my parents/family are believers, so it’s what I did.” Everyone in my family was startled by my conversion.
My wife and I adopted some kids out of foster care; some of them are black. Then Trump. Other shit at church too. “If any man be in Christ, he is a new creation; old things are phased away, behold all things are become new.” Sort of.
The role of the Holy spirit; what do Christians look like? I was always swimming upstream. Tired of fighting with these people. “I don’t think that book means what you think it means…”
Beautiful story! I think we're all pretty clueless, stumbling through each step, until we look back at it all and marvel that God was willing to call us to begin with.
Thank you, Brandon! Yes, it is amazing to look back and see how God was guiding and nudging us all along the way.
Similar to my “call to ministry”. I am not in ministry (or even in Christianity) today.
What happened to your "call to ministry" that makes it not even Christianity for you today? Was it a cultural call and not a spiritual call? Did you get hooked or were you called?
Umm…I don’t know which it was. I am a smidge on the autistic side, so I tend to be pretty concrete. I have always struggled with this notion of “calling”. What does that mean? That you’re confident that God is on board with…full-time ministry? But isn’t every believer living a sacred existence: full-time?
I didn’t grow up in Christendom; I got saved in high school —invited by a friend. My dad is an alcoholic, parents split up…I was attracted because these people had stable families and looked like they had their shit together. So my conversion was genuine; not a “my parents/family are believers, so it’s what I did.” Everyone in my family was startled by my conversion.
My wife and I adopted some kids out of foster care; some of them are black. Then Trump. Other shit at church too. “If any man be in Christ, he is a new creation; old things are phased away, behold all things are become new.” Sort of.
The role of the Holy spirit; what do Christians look like? I was always swimming upstream. Tired of fighting with these people. “I don’t think that book means what you think it means…”