Called to be... a leader

Video transcript

I’ve had a beautiful privilege over my years of ministry. I get to share the good news of Jesus to everyone I meet, and God has graciously led me on a journey. This was first as a territorial envoy for a number of years, before he called me to become a distance learning territorial envoy cadet. Now as a lieutenant, I continue to live out my calling to be a leader of God’s people right here in Macclesfield. 

God is amazing, because he’s taken me – my weaknesses, my faults and my passions and joys, and my God-given gifts – and he’s used me to help building his Kingdom here on earth. I love it because I get to walk alongside people. I get to teach them truths from Scripture, and I get to see them grow closer to God. It really is an amazing calling. 

Being an officer in The Salvation Army looks different every single day. Some days it might be preaching and teaching in worship. Others, it’s sitting with a cup of tea and just doing life together. And at other times it’s a mountain of paperwork or scrubbing toilets. God uses me in so many different ways, and I think it’s a beautiful thing that he uses me. He uses my passions, so I actually get to do the things I love to do, like write, be creative – and even bake for Jesus. 

As an officer, you never know what each day will looks like, but you know it will always be an adventure. In recent days many of us have been praying at 9:38 each day. My alarm goes off every morning. We’ve been asking the Lord of the Harvest to send out workers into the harvest field. I’ve seen God move in such a powerful way. We know that God is calling people to be disciples, to be trusting, to be purposeful, to be forgiven and to be leaders – and that he’s calling some to do that as officers and territorial envoys here in The Salvation Army. 

I think that Candidates Sunday is always a great opportunity to consider the call he has on my life and on others. And my challenge to you is that if God is calling you to leadership, let him take you, all of you and use you to be who he created you to be. I know that he’ll make something beautiful, because if he’s done it for me, he can do it for you too. The question is, what are you waiting for?