It’s such a harsh, painful word. Such a harsh, painful reality. Nobody likes to be rejected. Yet everyone at some time has been rejected by someone - for a part in a play or a band or a chorus, for place on a sports team, for a college, for a much-needed job. Or most painfully, some of you know what it’s like to be rejected by someone you love.
Some people who are scarred by rejection have come to see everything in life in terms of acceptance or rejection. Rejection can drive people to some pretty dark places. But rejection can also spark people to do amazing things with their lives.
In my own life, I’ve certainly not been immune from rejection. I’ve experienced rejection because I’m a woman. When I first started seminary, I preached a couple of Sundays to try out at a little country church for my first student pastorate. One couple threatened to leave the church if a woman was called, which influenced the decision of the whole congregation. That’s OK - God led me to another church to serve, and my commitment to ministry only deepened.
That experience helped make me a better and stronger pastor, and God has used me in ministry for 33 years now. It also positively impacted that little country church, because four years after that rejection, they called a woman minister, with the seeds having been planted by my visit.
There’ve also been times of rejection when I was single because I’m a minister. Just imagine how fast some men can run when they discover their date is a minister. One guy said, “You know, no man ever thinks, ‘Gee, I wonder if she’s a minister.’ It’s just not even on a guy’s radar.”
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