With 4 years of seminary under my belt, I walked into a ministry with a long agenda. As a new pastor, I thought I was there to change that place. Instead, God used that place to change me. The board members were supportive, but they relentlessly kept my feet to the fire in administrative details. I needed to learn how to work with lay leadership, how to be careful in my work, and how to dream with others.
We often think God has assigned us to change the world around us when in reality He is interested in changing us. Why? To make each of us "a vessel for honor, sanctified and useful for the Master, prepared for every good work." God often uses the most unlikely people in the most unlikely places to teach is some of life's most difficult lessons. And just when we think we've arrived, He is instructing us further.
If you want to be an agent of change, don't resist the true Agent of Change. He has your best interest-and His-at heart! -Joe Stowell
Scripture Reference: 2 Timothy 2:19-26
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