{"id":42,"date":"2006-07-18T00:38:32","date_gmt":"2006-07-18T07:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sackrider.org\/myblog\/category\/ministry\/church-tonight"},"modified":"2025-06-15T06:07:50","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T06:07:50","slug":"church-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/church-tonight\/","title":{"rendered":"Church Sunday&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Billie Hunt (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.billiehunt.org\/\">http:\/\/www.billiehunt.org\/<\/a>) taught at our church Sunday morning and night.\u00c2\u00a0 Her teaching was about not giving up on your dreams.\u00c2\u00a0 She used Joseph as an illustration.\u00c2\u00a0 The whole thing got me thinking, so I would say she did her job well.\u00c2\u00a0 <!--more-->I am called to ministry.\u00c2\u00a0 I work in Information Technology.\u00c2\u00a0 I make a good living in IT.\u00c2\u00a0 Over the last eight years, I&#8217;ve\u00c2\u00a0earned certifications, mastered\u00c2\u00a0new technologies, and advanced my career.\u00c2\u00a0 Stephanie is able to stay home with Zander because I earn a good living in IT.\u00c2\u00a0 I am called to ministry.<\/p>\n<p>In a sermon at World Harvest Church, Mario Murillo quoted\u00c2\u00a0his book Critical Mass saying:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>You are a Christian! That means to do anything below\u00c2\u00a0what you were created to do will bore you!<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I love IT work.\u00c2\u00a0 I love scripting and making technology work.\u00c2\u00a0 I love solving problems with technology.\u00c2\u00a0 At the same time, I hate IT work.\u00c2\u00a0 I hate that I&#8217;m not working in ministry.\u00c2\u00a0 I hate that I&#8217;m still advancing my career because I feel like I&#8217;m abandoning my calling.\u00c2\u00a0 Billie Hunt quoted Matthew 22:14 from a translation I&#8217;ve never heard of tonight\u00c2\u00a0(The Johnson translation maybe?).\u00c2\u00a0 It read something like this &#8220;Many are invited to live in the spiritual, but few prepare to do so&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Lord &#8211; Am I preparing to live in the spiritual?\u00c2\u00a0 Or am I preparing for something else&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billie Hunt (http:\/\/www.billiehunt.org\/) taught at our church Sunday morning and night.\u00c2\u00a0 Her teaching was about not giving up on your dreams.\u00c2\u00a0 She used Joseph as an illustration.\u00c2\u00a0 The whole thing got me thinking, so I would say she did her job well.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2921,"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions\/2921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}