My identity is not in looks, career, relationship status, income, popularity, etc.
My identity is in Christ. He is what is most important when someone is looking at my life.
Oh how frustrating it is to daily need this reminder to not get down on myself. I never wanted the title "stay at home wife" for myself. I hate the idea that I might need to accept roles that I don't want. Example: the pastor at our church approached me informing me that someone had suggested my name as someone to be a leader in women's ministry at the church.
I am not interested in this ministry. I am interested in working with the adolescents, as usual, but not with the women. How frustrating because now I kind of feel bad. The church has a need in this area and someone thought of me but I don't want to do it. I'm pretty confident the only reason my name came up is because 1) I have no job; 2) I have no children. All the other women in the church seem to be employed or have a couple of kids so that leaves me...
We are supposed to serve in the church and to give back to the community which serves us spiritually. As believers we are all a part of the body of Christ and each have different gifts to bring to the functioning of the body. I don't necessarily feel like women's ministry is a gifting that I have. I do get along well with other women and for the most part like most women I encounter, however I do not want to be a leader/planner. Now if I had been approached in the capacity to help with biblical type counsel then I would be very interested.
Because I quite literally have nothing to do most weeks besides prepare food, go grocery shopping, work out, go to Bible study, go to church... I clearly have a lot of free time on my hands. Time that could be spent doing things related to church ministry whether it is a ministry I have an interest in or not. I might actually really like it, who knows right? I just have my own preferences which may or may not be good. I know that it is good to go outside of our comfort zones, especially when it comes to our faith because a lot of growing happens then. Maybe I need to step up to the challenge or maybe I need to set a boundary...?
Daniel said a lot but in summation literally referred to the Nike slogan, "Just do it."
Definitely something to pray about and get more information about before committing.
Thanks,
Camille
This spoke to my heart:
http://www.allaboutgod.com/body-of-christ-video.htm
Colossians 3:17
And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
1 Corinthians 12:12-27
12 For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. 13 For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit.
14 For the body does not consist of one member but of many. 15 If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. 16 And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. 17 If the whole body were an eye, where would be the sense of hearing? If the whole body were an ear, where would be the sense of smell? 18 But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose. 19 If all were a single member, where would the body be? 20 As it is, there are many parts, yet one body.
21 The eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you,” nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.” 22 On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, 23 and on those parts of the body that we think less honorable we bestow the greater honor, and our unpresentable parts are treated with greater modesty, 24 which our more presentable parts do not require. But God has so composed the body, giving greater honor to the part that lacked it, 25 that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another. 26 If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together.
27 Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.
My identity is in Christ. He is what is most important when someone is looking at my life.
Oh how frustrating it is to daily need this reminder to not get down on myself. I never wanted the title "stay at home wife" for myself. I hate the idea that I might need to accept roles that I don't want. Example: the pastor at our church approached me informing me that someone had suggested my name as someone to be a leader in women's ministry at the church.
I am not interested in this ministry. I am interested in working with the adolescents, as usual, but not with the women. How frustrating because now I kind of feel bad. The church has a need in this area and someone thought of me but I don't want to do it. I'm pretty confident the only reason my name came up is because 1) I have no job; 2) I have no children. All the other women in the church seem to be employed or have a couple of kids so that leaves me...
We are supposed to serve in the church and to give back to the community which serves us spiritually. As believers we are all a part of the body of Christ and each have different gifts to bring to the functioning of the body. I don't necessarily feel like women's ministry is a gifting that I have. I do get along well with other women and for the most part like most women I encounter, however I do not want to be a leader/planner. Now if I had been approached in the capacity to help with biblical type counsel then I would be very interested.
Because I quite literally have nothing to do most weeks besides prepare food, go grocery shopping, work out, go to Bible study, go to church... I clearly have a lot of free time on my hands. Time that could be spent doing things related to church ministry whether it is a ministry I have an interest in or not. I might actually really like it, who knows right? I just have my own preferences which may or may not be good. I know that it is good to go outside of our comfort zones, especially when it comes to our faith because a lot of growing happens then. Maybe I need to step up to the challenge or maybe I need to set a boundary...?
Daniel said a lot but in summation literally referred to the Nike slogan, "Just do it."
Definitely something to pray about and get more information about before committing.
Thanks,
Camille
This spoke to my heart:
http://www.allaboutgod.com/body-of-christ-video.htm
Colossians 3:17
And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
1 Corinthians 12:12-27
12 For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. 13 For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit.
14 For the body does not consist of one member but of many. 15 If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. 16 And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. 17 If the whole body were an eye, where would be the sense of hearing? If the whole body were an ear, where would be the sense of smell? 18 But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose. 19 If all were a single member, where would the body be? 20 As it is, there are many parts, yet one body.
21 The eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you,” nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.” 22 On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, 23 and on those parts of the body that we think less honorable we bestow the greater honor, and our unpresentable parts are treated with greater modesty, 24 which our more presentable parts do not require. But God has so composed the body, giving greater honor to the part that lacked it, 25 that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another. 26 If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together.
27 Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.
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