"What's your ministry?" That's a question I am rarely asked, yet I've been asked that very question twice in the past few months. Hmmmm ... kinda strange! Not only that, I find the question itself quite strange. I start to smell the unpleasant odor of rancid religion!

It all started back in April when I applied for a photography course at a Christian college. In a set of essay questions I had to answer, in encountered this one: "What is your current ministry and how do you envision your future involvement?" Here's the answer I gave: Then last month someone I didn't know, who had heard that I had been part of the ElijahList, e-mailed me and asked to hear more about my "prophetic ministry." I suppose they imagined that I sat around the ElijahList all day writing down "prophetic words" I was receiving from God. In reality, I was doing computer programming and video production work. When I replied that he must be mistaken, because I didn't have a prophetic ministry, he apologized, and then he asked, "So, what IS your ministry?" This was my reply: This question of "what is your ministry?" seems very much like a religious version of the question, "what do you do for a living?" This is exactly the question I addressed in my article Living For a Living. In it I shared about a New Zealand film called This Way Of Life. Here is part of what I wrote: I think the answer to both questions is exactly the same: "I live!" THAT is my ministry! It's the same ministry that Adam and Eve had during their long lives as the parents of the human race. It's the same ministry that billions of their descendants have had throughout human history all around the world.

It's the same ministry those with Alzheimer's disease have. It's the same ministry severely autistic people have. It's the same ministry the unborn have. In all these cases, as well as the case of every human being who has ever been conceived, it is enough to simply EXIST without having to "have a ministry." Can't we simply be human without being religious? This article is 21st a series of articles on this Web site related to Modern Christianity and the Church which also includes (scroll to see the entire list):

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