This “secular experience” stuff is just not for me. On the other hand, I am also done with schooling - can’t really take much more.
Can I just go straight into full time ministry? Please?
Thanks.
- Extended Rant-ish -
Being kind of young, the older people keep raving on about how I need more experience, how I need to “get out into the world” in order to do my job well in the church. I’m a week into my summer job, and I’m already feeling like I’m done with it. Not gonna lie, part of the reason is because of some of the early mornings that I have. That 6am start in a couple Mondays is going to make me a very angry person.
Anyway, back to that concept of me needing more experience. I totally agree that I lack big time experience in the working field. There’s a reason why I am always so slow to getting jobs; I hate them. The way the world works with always needing to get more money is stupid. I’ve never seen money as anything more than just a tool in helping people get things. I hear friends and other people talk about their future plans, and how they’re getting murdered in school right now, but when they’re done, the cash is going to be rolling in. I quite honestly don’t care. People can diss the pastoral stuff all they want, especially in regards to how much they make, but it doesn’t phase me. So if their goal was to make me feel bad, you’ll have to go find someone else. Money doesn’t rule my life like it does yours. If I am living comfortably, I am not complaining. I didn’t really care that I have never been one to have much money; but now as it costs too damn much for me to continue doing what I want to do, I am forced to have to look at this resource and face the fact that I don’t have much of it.
For some reason, I digress again. Haha. Yeah, I’m starting to think that this idea of me needing more work experience is becoming more and more bogus. Quite honestly, I’m not that kind of person to just go that route. The only real way for me to get any experience that is worth crap is by being in ministry.
The analogy goes: one way I could’ve approached this pastoral thing was to finish a degree at the UofA before I went to get my MDiv, and then start working in a church. That would’ve taken seven years. God told me to become a pastor. He didn’t tell me how to do it, what kind of pastor, etc. He just told me he wanted me in ministry. And what I think that meant is that, with how I wanted to get to that destination was up to me. So because I’m shallow and not in the least bit sophisticated, I kind of just anticipate to go straight into ministry as fast as I can.
I’ve never been an academic, and probably never will be. The one thing I do know is that I’ve always felt at home when in the church. So that’s what I’m going to stick to, and I’m going to get there as fast as I can.
