One of the biggest mistakes you can make in ministry is to compare yourself to someone else. In fact, it\u2019s been said that if any two of us are identical, one of us may be unnecessary! The apostle Paul writes, \u2018There are differences of ministries, but the same Lord.\u2019<\/i> (1 Corinthians 12:5 NKJV)<\/p>\n
It\u2019s true that without help from others, you\u2019ll never become all you can be, but God wants you to be mentored, not cloned. He has called each of us to emphasise certain truths at different times. For example, John emphasised love, Solomon emphasised wisdom, and Paul\u2019s major emphasis was grace over law. The need determines the emphasis. If God calls you to be a pastor or church leader, it\u2019s like being a general practitioner. If He calls you to be an evangelist or a teacher, He\u2019s calling you to be a specialist. <\/p>\n
\u2018For to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, to another the word of knowledge through the same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healings by the same Spirit, to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another discerning of spirits, to another different kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. But one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually as He wills.\u2019<\/i> (1 Corinthians 12:8\u201311 NKJV) <\/p>\n
Not everyone will understand or appreciate your style of ministry. And that\u2019s ok\u2014it\u2019s not a popularity contest. You\u2019re called to be a servant, not a star. And a major prerequisite for ministry is \u2018that those who have been given a trust must prove faithful.\u2019<\/i> (1 Corinthians 4:2 NIV)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
One of the biggest mistakes you can make in ministry is to compare yourself to someone else. In fact, it\u2019s been said that if any two of us are identical, one of us may be unnecessary! The apostle Paul writes, \u2018There are differences of ministries, but the same Lord.\u2019 (1 Corinthians 12:5 NKJV) It\u2019s true […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}