//Quick preface: I'm trying to combine all my bloggings into one blog. Good or bad. One blog. So this is the first of a series of transfers. Enjoy.//
Christians as a whole have the tendency to become extremely complacent and one-minded. By that, I mean that followers of The Faith lean towards the mindset that serving God means “going into the ministry.” Often times though, that plan ends up less impactful than the average position. For myself, I plan on going into the ministry of cultural reversal. The ideal of beauty and physical appearance deeply saturates the minds of youth today. In moderation those concepts harm none, but the extreme extent to which they are taken these days arouses me to action. Thus, my “life plan” is to go into counseling of girls inflicted with eating disorders. Although indirect in changing culture, I speculate that even small steps impact the kingdom of God. Sure, I do not intend on running crusades for Christ or leading hundreds in the prayer of salvation, but I am one of those old-fashioned kind of people who believes that Christianity is at the core simply love. Putting a Christian label on my job description would not make my “ministry” any more effective, it would just make it an easier target for criticism and a hub for Christians to come and gossip about non-Christians. To truly go into the world and love like God asks, I need to go into the messed up worlds of crazy teenage girls; start with “the least of these” and see where God takes me from there.
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