My take on Truth, Grace, Restoration, Love

If you desire ministry you desire a good thing. This a a great dialogue between Mahaney and McDonald talking about what we at kaleomark look for in our interns and pastors. It will give you a starting place for understanding your ministry. Formal training doesn’t mean ready nor does the absence mean you are not ready. I’ve had individuals come to me who want to work full time in ministry because they hate their secular job, or because they thought or were a good teacher. Had one govt. employee view a ministry job as a stepping stone to get away from their job, read the bible and read it to others, but they had no clue how to lead, they couldn’t get a core group of people to follow him with the gospel.

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I’m nearly 41 now with over 20 years of pastoring and our Pastor to families is let’s say a few decades older than I am and has far more years of wisdom and experience than I. What Kaleomark has as a young church is experience and wisdom with a passion to sow that into young families. Don helped launch ministries with Campus Crusade and Family life working with those incredible evangelical leaders- Bill Bright and Dennis Rainey . I too have had the privilege to work with and under some incredible leaders, pastors, professors, and friends like Thom Rainer, Chuck Lawless, Al Mohler, Steve Sjogren, David Gushee, Mark Batterson and so many others.

What Don and I both recognize is Desiring ministry is a good thing, but you have to first live it where you are. If you have a job at a grocery store or construction job your future vocation should be revealed in your present day service. You aren’t simply a mail man one day then go to a local church and say give me a job and start ministry.

Don and I both, over the years volunteered in positions, and places because we had a hunger to do it to glorify our God first and foremost. We took steps that revealed God’s kaleo, his call and His mark on our life. The pastors and planters, and interns and future churches will all bare such marks so we will be faithful to our vision of changing lives to change cities to glorify God.