Born on a Sunday morning in 1958. Been around the block once or twice. Oh, interesting tidbit. Breach born, so yup, I came into this world backwards. Some tell me I’ve been doing things backward ever since.
Lots of talent in lots of things so I never felt pressured to choose a career. Looking back at my life, this is disappointing because if I had, I would have excelled. There are so many things I could have focused on becoming an expert, and doing very well financially.
Maybe I will say it this way. I got saved at twelve. At fifteen, I was called to preach. Nothing has ever truly been of interest to me career wise. With all the many jobs in my life, none of them just grabbed my attention, so each never became more to me than just a paycheck.
As to the preaching thing, I started three different times in my life to go that direction, but each ended in a disaster. Not going into details, trust me they would bore you, but I never got paid for when I was preaching and teaching GOD’s word and GOD’s way.
But I sure learned a lot. I picked up quite a bit as a teen in a denominational church, in a family with a Christian upbringing. Then setting out for the denominational college to begin down the road that would take me through seminary. That ended with me in full rebellion to GOD.
Thirteen years of this rebellion I got back on the straight and narrow path. It took quite a while for me to get any traction this time, but finally I ended up back in church and on a more vocational path to joining full time ministry. I got a lot of direct hands on training, and met many very colorful people along the way. This ended badly when I placed my trust in the wrong leader.
The good of my life, is I was forced to go back to square one and start all over multiple times. This caused me to recognize vast differences in what people believed and taught. Each Christian group believes themselves to be right in the dead center of GOD’s will. Each Christian leader, believes they are getting it right more so than any other Christian leader. Each believes they are right and everyone that is different has somehow deviated what GOD wants.
So, who is right? Your denomination? Your nondenominational group? The guy on the radio you never miss? The preacher in the pulpit teaching some complicated passage in scripture and explaining it so eloquently that it has to be exactly what GOD is saying?