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Entitlement & Ministry
So you are called to preach?
To evangelize nations? To pastor? To plant churches?
That's wonderful, but please remember that a calling does not entitle you to a blessed thing. This concept of "deserving" material things because you're a minister is muey loco. To deserve means to "have a claim for."
I hear people throw the word "deserve" around a lot nowadays. "She didn't deserve that," or "He deserved better than that."
How many times in life do we really get what we have a claim for?
I think we claim things that God never meant for us to have sometimes. And when we don't get them we feel cheated.
Godliness with contentment is great gain.
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I'm (sic) not cynical, I just haven't been around long enough to be Jedi mind-tricked by politics as usual. Alas, maybe in a few years I'll be beaten back into the herd. tstew
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