10 Reasons Why I Became A United Methodist Minister
Mar 07, 2012
10 Reasons Why I Became a United Methodist Minister Rev. Stephanie Vader
- • I love God, and I love people. Somehow being a minister made these two things come together.
- • I believe, like Jesus, that sacrificial generosity is the most powerful force for good in the world.
- • I like getting into deep theological discussions at parties, after Yoga class, at the hair salon, with my doctors, etc...
- • I want to be able to ask people, “How is your practice of faith going?” and not have them run away from me. Sometimes because I am a minister they do not run away. Sometimes because I am a minister they do run away.
- • I think wearing a robe is very slimming.
- • In any gathering I want to be the designated prayer.
- • I love reading an ancient book with stories about people being visited by angels, a donkey who talks, and a man who rose from the dead and walked through walls.
- • I can create a ritual for any life event. I make sense of the world through rituals.
- • I have most of the songs in the United Methodist Hymnal memorized what other career would see that as an asset.
- • I tried to ignore God’s call to the ministry of the ordained and failed.