The Vocation of Being Right and Being Relevant

There are many reasons that we are in this financial crisis. One is the challenge of the vocation of being right and being relevant.

As a member of church, having attended church services over 10 years, the question sometimes at the back of my mind is “Why do people come to church, so patiently and so persistently weeks after weeks, yet somewhat know something is amiss within their them, within church and the Services?”

This is a question the clergy and the leaders of the church need some consideration and owe a reply “Are we giving them THAT?”

THAT is
- The image one has when we mention church or going to church.
- The image one has when we mention the word “Priest”, “Father”, “Pastor”.

What is the image one has when we mention “church” or “coming to church”?
What is the image one has when we mention the word “Priest”, “Father”, “Pastor”?

Ask again, ask again, ask again, ask until they really think about what they say
- a very different set of replies may emerge. What we have initially sought but lost along the way, before we were “influenced”.

Weeks after weeks despite feeling a little amiss, I come seeking solace with God, in God. (We are not arguing “God is everywhere”). When I see my “Priest”, “Father”, “Pastor”, I want to a man of God, bearing the image of God – in him I see God and find solace in his words, in his actions.

"The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel"—which means, "God with us."


The calling of being right and being relevant – it is required of all of us, not just the clergymen.

So, likewise, savings should be safe.

(Coincidentally, there is an article on Straits Time today “Church pastors like none other - They have built their churches from scratch into two of the richest and biggest in Singapore." There maybe or may not be connection between the two articles as I have not read the other.)