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By Joe Torosian
Since the last newsletter, the question that came to me was why I write. I don’t want to make it complicated, but here we go.
I can’t help but write. I have to write. It’s cathartic, it clears the brain, it’s a pressure valve, and every time I try not to, I’m miserable. I’ve prayed and asked God to take it away. I’ve also prayed in the past for the call to preach to be taken away.
Neither was, and I came to accept this is what God has made me to do. And whether I please my family, my friends, gain great success or achieve epic failure, I’m doing was God wants me to do.
I still don’t like how public it all is. There’s always the consideration of a bad sermon to a sanctuary full of people. A bad book being released for the world to see. A bad column revealing how little I know about the thing (sports) I claim to know so much about.
But those are fears we all have about everything we do, from occupation to parenting, to being a friend. It’s the perpetual risk we take for drawing breath.
So I keep focus when those moments come. I stay faithful to the callings God has placed on my life, and I press on.
That’s Part One.
Part Two, I want to keep pastoring. The world is changing, and pastors better be prepared to be bi-vocational. Not fear it, but embrace it. I want to keep pastoring, so I keep writing to supplement my income just a little bit to allow me the freedom to minister as a pastor of a church.
Joe T. is the author of “Tangent Dreams: A High School Football Novel” … “Temple City & The Company of The Ages” … “The Dead Bug Tales” … “The Dark Norm” & “FaithViews for Storm Riders”…and, the recently released, “Sin Virus.” All six available through Amazon.com.
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