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What gives me the right to do ministry?

What doesn't give me the right? If this is God's business, is he really so booked up that I can't squeeze in? There have been many hours of my life that this thought process has run through me, but the thing is, God needs me more than I need God. In a manner of speaking, and that manner would be, the God business. It's easy for me to look at the many gifts that I have been given and see a clear trajectory towards ministry. I am no kinds of a holy woman who just tries to state that I don't need God or any such nonsense, but I do think that in terms of how churches seem to be falling apart, doesn't God need more advocates, more voices, versus less? So, going by that kind of a cost benefit analysis, God needs me more than I need God.

There have always been a series of qualities I've experienced that have made me feel that I have the right to do ministry. In the church that I grew up in, which is Unity (although recently I did have my hand down when Dr. Tom asked if I was second generation Unity, which I am, because, as per typical Unity seminary and general Unity experience dictates - we make fun of or generally demean those who grew up in Unity). In any case, the church of my childhood certainly states that just by deciding that I am going to do ministry, I have the right for it.

I have had a number of spiritual experiences that have lead me here. Lead me to the feeling of awe and intensity to my certainity of ministry. As I practice my full time ministry now, and watch the lives of teenagers and adult transform using these principles around me, I am certain that I am in the right place. I feel at the end of the day what gives me the right is the fact that I do this work, do a great job at it, and enjoy it.