{"id":100119,"date":"2019-02-17T19:40:04","date_gmt":"2019-02-17T19:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mtischoolofministry.com\/how-to-start-a-business-with-education\/"},"modified":"2025-06-05T20:39:48","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T20:39:48","slug":"how-to-start-a-business-with-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mtischoolofministry.com\/?p=100119","title":{"rendered":"Setting the Ministerial Priorities of Your Calling"},"content":{"rendered":"

Setting the Ministerial Priorities of Your Calling<\/h2>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Many in ministry with the call of God on their lives make an unbiblical decision about the priorities of their callings.\u00a0 In the zest and fervor of the call of God on their lives, they go all out for God and make the mistake of confusing their relationship with God with their ministry for Him.\u00a0 They are not<\/em> the same.\u00a0 God always and in everything must have top priority within your life.\u00a0 It is to Him you owe your unswerving dedication, loyal service, and unceasing love.\u00a0 On the other hand, your ministry, or calling, is not your relationship with God; it is your service to God\u2019s people.\u00a0 No matter what your giftings or calling may be, your work for God is not the same as your relationship and worship to God.<\/p>\n

The Lord Jesus Christ is without question your first priority in life, called or not called.\u00a0 Your second priority of calling should be your immediate family: wife, children, and parents\u2014and in that order.\u00a0 The pressures of ministry and the tremendous demands it makes on your life cannot be confused with your responsibility to your family.\u00a0 All too often we find the family of the minister being neglected because of the unceasing demands of ministry.\u00a0 To be guilty here (and most are) is to sin because of wrong priorities.\u00a0 The husband and wife, according to God\u2019s plan, are one.<\/em>\u00a0 Those in the ministry are no exception.\u00a0 Your ministry is not holier or better than your relationship with your wife and children.\u00a0 They come before everyone else under your charge.<\/p>\n

This responsibility is not limited just to divine order in the home, although it includes it.\u00a0 Your wife is the balance to your call in ministry, no matter how public her role may be.\u00a0 The needs of your family\u2014spiritually, emotionally, physically\u2014must stay prioritized above everyone else within the jurisdiction of your ministry.\u00a0 As you make your family your second priority, your ministry will be released to a new level, both personally and publicly.<\/p>\n

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Your work for God must remain third place in your priorities of life.\u00a0 All too often a costly mistake is made at this point.\u00a0 The minister is tempted to set his ministry priority too high, as discussed above, or too low.\u00a0 Let me explain what I mean by too low.\u00a0 If your ministry is your job,<\/em> then you treat it like the world treats a career.\u00a0 Prestige, power, or remuneration become goals in place of God\u2019s will or people (lost and saved alike).<\/p>\n

Telltale signs that your ministry is in the wrong priority slot include the following: (1) professionalism, the skilled application of your ministry gifts with selfishness or insincerity (just ask three people in your congregation that are not personal friends, or better yet counted as enemies, about this); (2) secularism, a carnal lifestyle revealed by what your mind normally runs to, what your topic of conversation usually drifts to, and what your favorite pastime is (sports, politics, finances, hobbies, etc.);\u00a0 and (3) lack of vision, as you plod along each day, just following a routine and doing what needs to be done.\u00a0 Your ministry has become little more than rote and routine.\u00a0 There is no plan, no vision\u2014just the \u201csame-o, same-o.\u201d\u00a0 I call this failing faith.<\/p>\n

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Set your priorities according to the principles of God\u2019s Word.\u00a0 Jesus Christ is first, without exception, always before task and time.\u00a0 Make the love of your natural life, God\u2019s gift of family, second only to the Lord Himself.\u00a0 Endeavor, thirdly, to make your calling and\/or ministry the greatest gift to the world it can be, for Jesus\u2019 sake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Setting the Ministerial Priorities of Your Calling \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Many in ministry with the call of God on their lives make an unbiblical decision about the priorities of their callings.\u00a0 In the zest and fervor of the call of God on their lives, they go all out for God and make the mistake of confusing their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[20,21,22],"class_list":["post-100119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learning","tag-college","tag-diploma","tag-student"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtischoolofministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtischoolofministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtischoolofministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtischoolofministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtischoolofministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mtischoolofministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100465,"href":"https:\/\/mtischoolofministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100119\/revisions\/100465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtischoolofministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtischoolofministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtischoolofministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}