Qualifications
Every once in a while someone will come along and challenge me over whether or not I’m qualified to lead ExWitch.
My response is always the same (tho I usually tailor my words to the situation):
“Of course I’m not qualified, but God called me, and so here I am.”
Just as God called Isaiah, and Isaiah replied with “Here am I, send me” …
I was just reading this week’s edition of Leadership Weekly and ran across the perfect answer from someone who was a pastor:
Congregational expectations can be unreasonably high. They want a pastor as purpose driven as Rick Warren, as entrepreneurial as Bill Hybels, as evangelistic as Billy Graham, and as compassionate as Mother Teresa.
They want a wise leader: someone with easy answers to the complex problems of the church.
They want a charismatic leader: someone who can get the church to do what it doesn’t want to do and make them believe that they like it.
They want a dynamic leader: into whose hands they can place the broken shards of their lives and then receive them back again whole.
What do they get instead?
Someone like me. Not the wisest. Not the bravest. Not the holiest.
The best they can get is an ordinary person who has been given the privilege of participating in an extraordinary calling.
Said it far better than me. 
This is a well-grounded article about how to gain a good sense of yourself - your strengths, talents, weaknesses - and how to harness all of that for God’s glory. It’s well worth a read at
