Answering a Professor's question
Scuse my saying so . . . but don't you work in the secular field and have for years? What part have you played in the missions movement?Actual email to me this week. Response:
- The great commission weighs heavily on me and I daily pray for the lost and look for opportunities to witness
- The secular verses sacred vocation. I really don't think about it that much. It takes worker bees like me who labor in some pretty mundane areas but support one's local church faithfully
I remember in high school, we had a term for some of the chapel speakers/guest Bible class teachers we had at times. "He's the kind of guy who thinks we should all be on the mission field" was a phrase uttered more than a few times each school year.
ReplyDeleteI was more than a little irritated. This idea that the clergy are "in the ministry" and those in the secular work force are "out of the ministry".
ReplyDeleteBut he is well-known (I've gathered) for having a prickly personality.
Some of us are called into "work" on the Lord's Day. My wife the nurse
ReplyDeleteprovides health care to those in need on the holy-est of holidays.
Those in who are in the non-secular world should be thankful that
there is a medical professional or policeman on duty when they
suddenly are stricken after that large Sunday meal. I am just as
loved by the lord as my minister and I help pay his salary and keep the heat and lights on at our large church auditorium. God bless us all!