Need advice on good company

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I have health issues.Howcome you don't drive anymore?

 

Kids, sick wife and the ministry.

 

All real good reasons.

 

Are you a full time minister

 

Nah I do some interim work but mostly do evangelistic work and the children's ministry at my home church.

 

Awesum,my neighbor is a minister by night and truck driver by day.

 

"ministry" means at best (and I hope it is so) that one desires to be helpful and supportive to others.
In it's more common application, the term refers to one who desires egotistical dominion over others.

Religion is the easy way out for those who want to feel good about themselves without doing the actual work of enlightenment. To whom shall we preach? Resourceful example is the only leadership worth following; the world is full of superstition and credulity and demagoguery and every way imaginable to avoid personal responsibility. Terms such as "minister" and "pastor" and "priest" have become titles to live down rather than live up. Those who resort to such tired tropes are usually (though not always) the most nict-voyant and self serving among us and concerned far more with public image than private virtue.

Anyone who self-styles themselves such as these is asking for and deserving of our most rigorous scrutiny.