God’s Call to Ministry - Part Six: Temperament and Self-Awareness
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Another key component to giftedness is your temperament. Do you have the temperament to be a spiritual entrepreneur? Is this temperament part of giftedness, your DNA? How are you wired? Do you thrive or cringe on chaos? Do you see uncertainty as a challenge to watch God work, or do you break out in a cold sweat? Most people are not wired to be rugged pioneers, ready to conquer and tame uncharted terrain. If God has not made you this way, that is okay. If you don’t like to take risks, that’s okay. It is critical to have an accurate self-awareness of what motivates you. Don’t let your passion dumb down an accurate perception of your capabilities and capacity.
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What is your level of self-awareness? Don’t let the allure of vocational ministry intoxicate you to the realities of who you are and how God has made you. For example, can you, and will you, do all that is necessary in a ministry? As you start your ministry or go through a growth spurt, you will find yourself licking the stamps, brewing the coffee, making the calls, writing the letters, finding the web developer, hiring the bookkeeper, recruiting and leading a board of directors, and raising the money. Are these activities okay with you? Are you gifted and skilled in this way? If not, admit it, and save yourself and your family the heartache, money, and pain in the name of the Lord’s work. But, if you are wired this way, go for it with Holy Spirit-led abandonment, and don’t look back!
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