Christian Careers Unite Your Calling and Business

Christian Careers are vocations you pursue as a calling. As a follower of Christ you are called to ministry. We all are. In fact our main job as Christians is the "work of the ministry".

One of the most exciting awakenings in the Church today is the reality that a person's work is their ministry! As pastors we see the importance of equipping the saints for this work... not to do it all for them.

For a lot of you, work is a means to an end. You fall into some type of job or business just to pay the family bills and give to your local church to support its ministry.

We used to do that. It was unfulfilling. Our jobs were not giving us a sense of purpose. It was hard to see how we were making a difference in the world other than through our church.

As a result many with a heart for the Kingdom of God gravitate towards what they have been taught is "real ministry". You know... working at the church.

Christian careers like maintenance, teaching Sunday School, counseling, youth pastoring or other vocational church staff member, maybe eventually becoming a Sr. Pastor.

This was our concept of ministry. The ultimate Christian Career in our thinking was to transition into "full time ministry"... earning income through a church salaried staff position. For a year we did exactly that.

Many find themselves unfulfilled after investing years in Bible College or Seminary because they were never called to vocational ministry. They were called to minister doing what they do best... business, art, sports, and many other "secular" careers.

Through christian business opportunities (cbo), many are finding a vehicle that not only fills their lives with purpose; we are seeing many discover the joy of what we call Marketplace Ministry.

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Our only problem was the brick and mortar business we owned consumed all our time and energy. There was little income to show for all our hard work. We managed to scrape by on $2,000 a month. Try raising a family of five on that income in a resort town!

That's when we started praying and seeking for answers. Nothing we looked at seemed like a better option. We tried to go back to the "full time ministry" way of thinking but our church could not fully support us.

God had other plans. He wanted us back in business and to remain bi-vocational pastors.

Through some friends we met we found a great business to build an income and a lifestyle giving us more freedom to make choices.

Of all things it turned out to be a Network Marketing business. Yikes! Please... anything but that Lord!

How on earth can Network Marketing be right for pastors of a church? In our minds they were worlds apart and diametrically opposed.

It took some renewing of our minds... rethinking what Christian Careers were really meant to be before we could see the potential.

The renewal came about by meeting other believers who built great incomes. They shared with us the amazing exploits God does through their businesses.

We were quite taken aback when we realized that they were reaching out to many more people that we were. We saw how they each had their own unique gifts and talents but were able to use and grow in them through their business.

Bottom line... they were living fulfilled, abundant lives. They had what we were looking for.

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