Matt Chandler Impersonates Mark Driscoll

  Several months ago I ran across this clip from Matt Chandler impersonating Mark Driscoll.  The point he was making was to Pastors and Preachers, but it applies to all of God's children.  Chandler simply points out for individuals to fulfill their God given ministry and not try to copy someone else.

We read in 1 Peter that:

 “God has given each of you a gift from his great variety of spiritual gifts. Use them well to serve one another. Do you have the gift of speaking? Then speak as though God himself were speaking through you. Do you have the gift of helping others? Do it with all the strength and energy that God supplies. Then everything you do will bring glory to God through Jesus Christ. All glory and power to him forever and ever! Amen.” (1 Peter 4:10–11)  

The Psalms are filled with references to waiting on God.  “But for you, O Lord, do I wait; it is you, O Lord my God, who will answer.” (Psalm 38:15)  What does this have to do with fulfilling your personal ministry?  Most people are not willing to do the hard work of seeking God through prayer and then waiting for His answer!  Listening is a part of a healthy prayer life, it is a vital part of the secret prayer life that Jesus called us to.  Eugene Peterson noted that, "if we pray without listening, we pray out of context."  Prayer and seeking our Heavenly Father in prayer is glorious, but it is also hard work.  Remember we have an enemy, he passionately want to cut off our communications with the Father.

It is in doing the hard work in prayer, seeking God's face in prayer and then listening for His still small voice that we receive our directions and instructions in ministry.  It is here that we learn how to deploy the gifts God has given us.

   “For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function, so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another. Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, in proportion to our faith;” (Romans 12:4–6)  

Because each of us has "gifts that differ according to the grace given to us," then it is imperative that each of us receives our instructions directly from our Heavenly Father.  He longs for each of us to have an intimate relationship with Him.  He invites, He calls, He desires for each of us to come to Him and enjoy Him.  Be who God created you to be...no one can do that better than you.
 Pursuing Him together, listening to His voice, longing to fulfill His calling on my life!
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