I am writing this article and you are reading it because we enjoy or at least are comfortable writing. Writing is a safe place for us. It may not have always been a safe place, but after time we become at home at our keyboard.
I also believe you are doing what you are called to do, but ministering through writing doesn’t always mean you write.
To be a faithful writer we have to often do things that are not writing. Share on X More than likely these things will take us out of our comfort zones and that is okay.
We often need to shut our lap tops and leave the coffee shop to perform tasks that are far different than writing.
Tasks like:
- Go to a conference
- Give a speech
- Have a one-on-one conversation
- Make a phone call
- Ask difficult questions
- Promote
- Learn social media
- Make a pitch
- Go to school
- Ask for favors
- Create a website
- Create business cards
- Keep up relationship networks
And the list could go on. Now, we writers come in all shapes and sizes we are both introverts and extroverts, but I believe mostly introverts. If that is you, you may be fearless — but not me. I have phone-phobia, not much on promoting my own stuff, and find life easier if I can avoid having any contact with other humans. So living in a distant cabin with a Keurig and Pandora writing works for me, but as a Christian writer I am not called to just write — the calling is much, much bigger — it is to be an ambassador of the One True King. Therefore, the message I have been sent to write is important, and I must commit to do whatever it takes to further that message.
So please don’t just write — follow God.
In that He will lead you out of your study and into other tasks, but tackle them with the same fire in which you write. They are one in the same, all ebbing to the same goal. In the same way in which God empowers and sustains you to write He will do the same on the podium or on the phone.
Fulfill your calling — write — but also fulfill your calling by following wherever He leads.
We love helping your growing in your writing career.
4 Comments
thank you for this. I’m like you … fine with the writing, hidden away somewhere, but all the others things to go along with promotion…not so much.
I am glad I am not alone!!!
I am the total opposite, I speak and teach, I did not want to write. I have to chain myself to the desk in order to get anything written. God is so good to create different personalities. We compliment one another.
Simply. . . Thank you Jake!