Paid to do, Made to do

A career is what you are paid to do.

A calling is what you are made to do.

- Howard Hendricks "Prof"

Howard Hendricks, Prof at DTS tells the following story -

I had one of the foremost surgeons in Dallas in my office a few years ago crying like a baby. When I finally got him under control, he said "Howie, do you think I ought to quit medicine and go into the ministry?" And then I wept with the realization that here was the most prominent and influential in his field and he didn't have a clue he's in the ministry.

This is the guy they call in when there's serious head injuries, he's the expert, the guy with the credentials, and he doesn't know he's in the ministry already. I can take you to the Southwestern Medical School and introduce you to numerous professors, students and former students who have become believers, or strengthened their walk with Jesus because of this man. And he didn't know he's in the ministry.

This guy has a ministry that I can't come close to!

You are living in a generation that is weary of words, but starving for reality. They have heard every rhetoric that has come down the pike, but when they see a man, particularly someone they respect, a good businessman, not someone who's perfect, but someone who is honest enough to say "I don't have it together, but let me tell you about someone who changed my life and in the process of continuing to do that everyday."


To that end.........