A NEW CHURCH MINISTRY MINISTRIES FOR THE UNCALLED AND NOT CHOSEN “FUN MINISTRIES” BLESSED ARE YOU WHO ARE NOT CALLED Psalm 8:3-9 NIV 3 When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, 4 what is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him? 5 You made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor. 6 You made him ruler over the works of your hands; you put everything under his feet: 7 all flocks and herds, and the beasts of the field, 8 the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas. 9 0 LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!
If I am a little less than divine, then why is it that I do not know God's will for my life? Why hasn't the Lord come to me in the church like He came to Isaiah in the temple? Why hasn't the Lord come to me like he came to Jeremiah saying, "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations." I have had no burning bush experience like Moses. God has not told me to go preach to the Ninevites and I ran away like Jonah. No big fish has been prepared for me to repent in until I accept God's call. You say that I am a little lower than the angels, a little less than God, or a little less than divine? No kidding!
How many people do you personally know got called by a burning bush, mouth-seared by God, or put in the belly of a big fish? How many people do you personally know even say that God has called them at all? You know it and I know it that very few Christians get a personal call from God. The experience of the overwhelming majority of Christians is not to be personally called or chosen by God so overtly or so outwardly.
My message today is for those who are uncalled and not chosen. The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the uncalled and the not chosen. He has sent me to open your eyes. He has sent me to tell you that the time of God's favor toward you has come. Blessed are you who are not called for you get to choose how you will serve the Lord. Blessed are you who are not called for you get to choose your response to God's love. Blessed are you who are not called for you get to choose how you will serve human kind.
“FUN Ministries” envisions having life coaches in every congregation. These life coaches will help the members, young and old to discover their talents, abilities and dreams, then guide them toward honing or developing their talents and abilities to a professional level. The FUN ministries will help the members discover what they like doing and show how their dreams are guideposts or clues from God for their life’s work. FUN ministries seek to show that one’s talents, abilities and dreams can be raised to the level of a ministry in the church. FUN Ministries redefines spiritual gifts as our natural talents and abilities touched by the Holy Spirit. Ministries for the uncalled and not chosen will help members in the pew discover their talents and abilities, and use them to do the will of God in their lives.
EXPANDED DEFINITION OF SPIRITUAL GIFTS
An individual’s natural talents, abilities, as well as dreams become spiritual gifts after that individual has been touched by the Holy Spirit. Our talents and abilities come to us riding on our DNA. Our dreams are developed in the circumstances in which we find ourselves. Our circumstances are not coincidental but part of God’s design. Between your developed talents and abilities, and your circumstances, God equips us for service and witness. FUN Ministries believes that one of our highest forms of worship is to discover our gifts and talents then use them in service for God through serving our fellow human beings.
Here is an expanded or appropriated interpretation of Isaiah 61.
61"The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me, Because the LORD has anointed me To preach good tidings to the uncalled and not chosen; He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to the captives in the pews, And the opening of the mind to those who are bound by a lack of knowledge of their purpose in life; 2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD’S FAVOR IN THEIR LIVES, And to proclaim the day of vindication of our God; To comfort all who mourn their plight, 3 To console those who mourn in the pews, To give them hope instead of the insecurity of not knowing, To give them the oil of joy that accompanies knowing their purpose, The garment of praise for the spirit of doubting; That they may be called trees of righteousness, The planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified."
MISSION:
To help Believers discover their talents, abilities and dreams and to recognize that these talents, abilities and dreams are the call of God on their lives. This call needs only to be elevated to the status of MINISTRY by them and the church. To show believers how their talents and dreams can be a more excellent way to worship God and serve human kind. Blessed are you who are not called for you get to choose how you will serve the Lord, respond to God’s love, and serve humankind.
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