"you are very marketable"
I bumped into an acquaintance from seminary recently and she knew snippets of my story. Knowing that I was very close to graduation, she asked what my plan was. As I begun to engage in small talk, she said with conviction, "I wonder where you will go, you are very marketable." I was struck by here words, and while we talked I was unable to focus because I was.. well... flattered. It was something that was on my mine at that specific moment because I had just finished a dinner with minister and director of a charity in Hong Kong who was on a search committee for his church. We went to dinner together was because he was a friend of Janice's family, but there was some talk of if I would be interested in pastoring the church he was part of. "excuse me? you wanted to know if I wanted to pastor your church?" Look, I've been a student for over 3 years now, and it'll be 4 before I start my next job. I've been constantly rubbing shoulders with p...
