The post below sums up something I've been thinking about for a while. I always chuckle when I get asked, 'what are you going to do when you graduate? Are you going to get your own church? Where are you going to go?', because pre-seminary, during, and post-sem (God willing), I am planning on staying put. I feel pretty strongly that this is my field -- my role might shift, my responsibilities might change, but this is where I have found my 'sweet spot'. I get the sense that some feel like I am settling, or that I am not ambitious, or that I am tuning God out by thinking that this is where I'm supposed to be. I am not opposed to a call elsewhere -- we are of like mind in our home that should the Boss tell us we are needed elsewhere, we'll go. But neither of us has felt that nudge, or seen the billboard, or been visited by angelic messengers in the night. Frankly, if this is where I stay, in this brown office with a great view of the neighborhood and a few steps from the coffee pot, I am cool with that. I love Jesus, what He is doing here, and am pretty darn proud to be a part of it. All that said...read what Donald Miller has to say on this topic:
Read this: http://donmilleris.com/2010/02/14/following-god-and-farming/
Then ask, what is your field? Where are you plowing? What is most important, what are you passionate about? What are you being asked to give up to take care of your field?
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