What is Jesus calling me to?

As I was thinking about this question I recalled the passage I read this morning ,1 Peter 5. My calling and your calling is located there. You may be thinking, “I am not a Pastor, so how can that be?” By verse 5 we all get lumped in together. 

I am going to hit what I see as 16 callings on my life as they appear in this passage. 

1 Peter 5:1-2 

I think too much in terms of structures and systems. Someone told me a while ago, probably Pastor Bill Clem, “we do ministry to get people done, how weird would it be to use people to get ministry done!?” How about you CG leaders and Pastors? Are you shepherding people or just managing people? Yeah we need both, but the managing serves the shepherding, we don’t squeeze shepherding into our systems, the systems are built to shepherd the flock towards being “all in” disciples of Jesus.

I go to the word, and I am told to shepherd, not under compulsion, not under pressure, not obligation, not duty, BUT WILLINGLY. Honestly I really want to Pastor the “the flock” around me. How amazing is it when people “get the Gospel”? I mean really GET IT, to where nothing else is better news. Good grades aren’t better news, new relationship isn’t better, new job isn’t better. Jesus becomes their best, their treasure. Eternal gratitude for forgiveness of sins becomes their song. What a joy! What a privilege. Yes some of the sheep are weird, and some have to be carried, and some have to be chased, but these are the people of God! The people “God cares for” (v.7), who have been called to “eternal glory in Christ” (v. 10). If the chief Shepherd cares for them to the point of dying for them, what does shepherding under him look like? “A servant is not greater than his master.” (John 15:20)