One of simplest, yet most profound questions we’ll ever wrestle with is: “What’s the purpose of my life?”
I believe that Jesus still invites us to follow Him, just like He did His disciples.
Sometimes it’s hard to figure out where God is going.
I know a lot of people who wrestle with this. The wrestling comes in the form of “calling” and “career”. We want to have a clear roadmap, and too often it just feels hazy for a lot of us. We don’t know what where Jesus is leading us or what He specifically wants us to do.
When God convinced me that He wanted me to move to back to our small, rural hometown and start a brand new church I thought this would all be about a church.
So during the process of preparation, I did what anyone would do: I studied, prepared, and planned to start a church. This wasn’t a mistake. It’s what anyone in this sort of venture should do.
If you’re starting a brewery, you need to know how to make beer. If you’re opening an auto shop, you need to know cars. My calling and career have always been in church ministry, so I was very devoted to learning best practices for church planters.
I thought it was all about a church.
But it wasn’t.
You see: In a career, you give yourself to a vocation. You work hard to improve your craft. You devote yourself to the opportunities, and you climb the ladder. Success is measured in metrics like salary and sales.
For me, this is not a career. It’s a calling.
Like the disciples who heard Jesus invite them to abandon their jobs as fishermen and to come and follow, I believe there is something vastly greater awaiting those of us who respond to that deep sense of motivation and purpose that is found in calling…
We discover that it’s all about Jesus.
When we chase a calling we get closer to Jesus, and that becomes the greatest gift that all of life could leverage.
For me and my journey of starting Vortex Church, planting a church has not been about a church. Instead, it’s been about responding to an invitation that Jesus has given. That invitation is simply to follow Him and draw near to Him.
It’s not about a church. It’s all about Jesus.
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How has pursuing your calling brought you closer to Jesus?