Some College Ministers are All-Stars in some ability.....then there is the rest of us! I had a friend that was such a gifted athlete, he would go to the gym and get in a pick up basketball game and everybody wanted to introduce themselves and be on his team. I had a handsome Associate once who would strum his guitar once in a song and everybody talked about what a great worship leader he was. But, there was that handsome thing. Some are the kind of speakers that get invited to speak for every D-Now within 500 miles.
But, what about the rest of us?
CONSISTENCY is the answer! Be where you say you will be. Be on time for meetings. Return phone calls that day. When you tell a student you will pray for them....pray for them. Check back later to see how that issue is going.
Show up for work EVERY day, on time and do what you came to do. I was speaking for a College Minister Workshop one time and the person introducing me said, "Our speaker has the gift of stating the obvious." I was not sure how he meant it. But I decided to take it as a compliment. Somebody has to state the obvious....again and again, it seems. Somebody has to do the obvious again.....again.....and again.
College Ministry is hard EVERY day work. Students will let you down. The school will schedule some big event at the same time as your event. The weather gets in the way. Tornadoes happen in the middle of your worship event. What do you do? You keep doing what you know to do. It is called Consistency. People send students to a ministry because they know what happens there. It is called Consistency.
How do you build a ministry? You put one week on top of another week on top of another month, on top of another year. And, you keep stating the obvious.....God loves you, and wants to have a relationship with you. And, he can forgive those stupid mistakes you made. You keep saying crazy things like, "I believe in you, your potential and that God can use you. That is called CONSISTENCY.
Why does it take 3 years to really establish a ministry? You have to put one week, one month, and one year on top of each other in a consistent manner.
So, what do you do, if you like me, are not especially good or gifted at anything? Keep being and doing what God called you do. Show up everyday and work at it like yesterday and like tomorrow. It is called consistency.
"Therefore my dear brothers, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor is not in vain." I Corinthians 1:58
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