Many women are sitting on the sidelines while a few women get into the game of doing the work of the ministry. It’s much like a football game with thousands of fans watching two teams of nine people on the field at one time. The men on the field are having all the fun!
God hasn’t designed us to sit on the sidelines but to get into the action in some way. You may be saying, “How do you know, Angela?” Well, Ephesains 2:10 tells us, “For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
There are good works which you were created to do. No one else is going to do them. So what is keeping so many women on the sidelines? I asked this very question of some women and here are some of their answers:
- Too busy
- I don’t feel qualified
- Fear of failure or rejection
- I see how well someone else does it and think I could never measure up.
- I don’t feel spiritual enough
- I’m shy and quiet; I could never get up in front of a group.
- I’m not sure what I should or could do. Where do I start?
The place to start is with baby steps. In a popular movie “What about Bob” a mental patient is encouraged to take baby steps into each new task he needs to do so that he doesn’t feel overwhelmed. Bob is so overwhelmed by the world that he works out of his own home and is afraid of almost anything. But by using this new perspective he starts taking baby steps, pushing through his fears into a new life.
Many times when we think of ministry it seems too overwhelming. The un-chartered territory, the time commitment, the responsibilities, the people depending on us ,all leave us paralyzed in fear much like Bob.
What are you telling yourself? Is it true? Does it align with scripture? What might be your first baby step into ministry? Think and pray about it and we’ll discuss it in the next post. Feel free to leave your comments as to either why you haven’t stepped into ministry or how you did.
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