Faith Venture

Do you find yourself going through the motions–as they say–at your job or ministry? We have a phrase “phoning it in” meaning that we aren’t really involved with what we’re doing and are remote from our work. Marketing guru Seth Godin ran into a friend who is in the ministry who said that often she’s just going through the motions. He asks, are you doing that yourself in all your jobs? Shouldn’t you be doing something that you are passionate about so that you are spiritually moved by the effort?

I think we all can get sucked into ministries that we are doing just because we couldn’t say no. Then we just phone it in. I love to see those who are doing a spiritually active job. Think of the many ministries going on around Sidney First–outreach to orphans and to sexual victims in Mexico, the school in Haiti, orphans in China, flood victims in New Orleans, disadvantaged in Sidney through the Alpha Center and other ministries.

Don’t phone it in. If you are–quit. Then do something that excites the fire within.

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