Timodial – About Being Me

For: The Institute Of Contemporary And Emerging Worship Studies, St. Stephen’s University, Essentials Red Online Worship History Course with Dan Wilt I am on week 1 of Essentials Red Online Worship History Course.

Just being part of this world automatically gives you your name, and an occupation. This basically defines who we are in a worldly view. If you were to meet someone new, you would ask their name and job, then is some people’s cases you would shelve them somewhere in your own personal ranking system. This being as judgmental as it sounds, is somehow what we do as Christians. We forget that we are all there to do the ministry of Christ. We give ourselves titles and positions. We take the calling of the ministry and turn it into a job.

Our personal ministry shouldn’t be a job, should not be defined by anyone else. It should be a God focused joy and celebration. Maybe it is because we don’t celebrate enough what we believe and what Jesus did, that we forget how to minister. Jesus gave the great commandment as a guide to bring our ministries to the world, not for us just to be nice people and do our job.

We are called to love, and out of love will come all good things. Remembering the greatest gift of love and celebrating it could only make things better. It may even encourage us to love God and others more and more.