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What I enjoy about it is I feel like pastoring is not so much a job and I haven't really
thought of it as a job in a long time. When I was administrator of the church, it was
probably a little more of a job because I had some specific responsibilities, I wasn't
as involved with people per se. But since I've moved into the Isaiah 58 realm, and deal
with people on the streets and people in the congregation I really see more how it's really
a calling from God, it's not just a paycheck and I've said before, I'd probably be doing
what I'm doing now whether I was getting paid or not. I might have to do something else
that would take some time away to make some money but I'd continue to be out on the streets.
And I'll probably be doing what I do now the rest of my life. So that's what I love about
it, it really feels like what God created me for, and I don't know what else I would
be doing if I wasn't doing this. Some of the tougher things are, for one, you're probably
if you, which goes back to it being a calling as opposed to a job, there are probably a
lot of careers where you could make more money. So having been in the music business and seeing
some of the salaries there versus what you make in the church and there's quite a bit
of discrepancy. So you have to go in knowing what you're getting involved with and then
you just have a lot, you're meeting a lot of people's needs, so it's really difficult
sometimes to draw the line on when to stop giving. Yet you need to, you also need to
take care of yourself and take time for yourself. So a lot of times it's getting pulled in a
lot of different directions.