4. Pastoring is a spiritual gift not a career or paid position. Now, I already knew this, but haven't experienced it in over a decade because I was working as a pastor. But when I get to use my pastoring gift then and now it is really very rewarding. It is a joy to know that the Holy Spirit is working through me when I offer counsel, care, or leadership. It's nice to preach, I love it actually, but I find it more difficult when I'm preaching to a congregation that I don't know. I prefer to know the people, and what they're facing in their lives. While a number of people have stopped calling me "Pastor Ben" preferring just "Ben" I was never a pastor for a paycheck, always because that's the gift God imparted to me in my calling. One day people will call me pastor again, I look forward to that. But it will always be done in the gifting He has given me. He called me pastor first.
--Ben
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