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Ministry is a gift, ministers are gifted people. When St Paul describes ministry he insists on two points. Firstly, ministry is various, it might be healing, it might be prophecy, or it might be the utterance of wisdom. I will minister in one way and you will minister in quite another. Secondly, we will all be different, because we are differently gifted.

Ministers are gifted, but they are variously gifted. We are called, each of us, to exercise our own gifts and not to long for something else. So in this and every other diocese ministry takes a variety of different forms. We should celebrate that and not feel too threatened that while we do one thing someone else does another. As Archbishop Rowan Williams puts it,

I cannot become holy by copying another's path... I have to take my own steps, and create a life that has never been lived before. At the Day of Judgment, as we are often reminded, the question will not be about why we failed to be someone else; I shall not be asked why I was not Martin Luther King or Mother Teresa, but why I wasn't Rowan Williams. (R. Williams, Silence and Honey Cakes p, 95)

To find out more about the various elements of Diocesan Ministry within the Gloucester Diocese, please select a subject from the list in the right-hand margin, under more options.

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