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quote by the theologian Fredrick Buechner in which he said, “Your calling is where your deepest desires and the world’s deepest needs meet.” In light of I Corinthians 12:31, “we are to eagerly desire the “greater” gifts. The New Living Translation translates this passage, “So you should earnestly desire the most helpful gifts.” .We are to be watchful, open, attentive to the particular gifts that we are empowered (given the energy or grace to do) that can be the most helpful to the body of Christ in the context of the greatest need. Every member of Christ’s body, the church, is a minister, part of a royal priesthood, intended to be instrumental and influential in the ecclesial work of God. God gives some to perform larger roles according to his grace, but each role is vital. God provides order and leadership structure, but he often uses the least likely in the kingdom to be vessels for His amazing love and mercy manifest in the church. Romans 12: 6 says that “We have different gifts, according to the grace given us. “ We are intended to use these gifts in proportion to our faith. We do this, according to verse 5, because we belong to one another as the body of Christ. Willimon says that ministry is a vocation and ministers must be called. Drs. Johnson and Thompson described an inner call, a sets of reflections and feelings that we must attend to, and an outward call, which confirms the inner call by the words of Godly people, circumstances, and attention to hermeneutical interpretation. Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross was costly. It cost him his human dignity at times, the betrayal of family and friends, even his life. I Peter 2:21 reminds us “To this you were called, because Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in his steps.” According to Matthew 16:24, Christian discipleship costs the minister her very life as well. “If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will find it.” “For Paul, the cross is the pattern for Christian life.” It is the pattern of sacrifice, self-denial,