Most Christians think in a very negative way.
1. I don't have time to be in the ministry.
2. I'm not qualified.
3. I'm afraid I'll fail.
4. I don't know what to do.
5. I'm afraid of rejection.
There are more but lets stop at these for now and I will attempt to address these issues that Satan puts in our minds and conveniences us that they are real problems.
1. Everyone has the same 24 hours in a single day. Seems there are days when we just can't get it all done though. Doesn't matter if you're single, married, no children, w/children, retired, widower or widow we seem to be to busy for anything else.
The problem isn't with time it's with What You Think Being In The Ministry Is. As a believer in Christ your MINISTRY has to do with Mat 28:18-20 Jesus came and told His disciples, "I have been given all authority in heaven and on earth. Therefore, go and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Teach these new disciples to obey all the commands I have given you. And be sure of this: I am with you always, even to the end of the age."
Your ministry is everyday, every task, where ever you are at any moment in your "LIFE". You are involved in the ministry when you wake up, as you relate to those around you at the breakfast table, to the guys in the car pool, the folks at work, in the gym, the neighbor as you work in the lawn.
2. The only qualification you need is to be BORN AGAIN and the testimony of what Jesus has done for you. Study his word, attend a Evangelical Believing Church, Participate in a Group Bible Study. God is your source for Knowledge and Wisdom.
3. Rom 2:4 Don't you see how wonderfully kind, tolerant, and patient God is with you? Does this mean nothing to you? Can't you see that His kindness is intended to turn you from your sin? If Jesus is with you who can be against you. Remember that your definition of success may not be the same as Gods. Stumbling is a means by which our gracious Lord Grooms, Styles, Shapes and Molds us into that which he has designed for us.
4. Mat 22:37 - 40 Jesus replied, "'You must love the LORD your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment. A second is equally important: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' The entire law and all the demands of the prophets are based on these two commandments." Living these verses are the keys to everything we are. LOVE HAS BEEN AND WILL EVER BE GOD'S Message to us.
5. You may be scorned, put down, lied about, even stoned but Joh 14:16 And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Advocate, who will never leave you.
Rom 8:38-39 And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God's love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God's love. No power in the sky above or in the earth below—indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord.
