289 Passion Qualities
Your personal passions are what make you the unique person God created. Every person in your congregation will be passionate about something, and almost any passion has a spiritual component.
This variety of passions is the uniqueness God has brought about within our churches and our families.
Some people may confuse spiritual gifts with passion or talent. God made us who we are. He gave us our abilities and talents when He formed us, but our passions grow out of our unique individual spirit. Passions are the activities and tasks that we thoroughly enjoy and from which we gain great personal satisfaction.
Our personal passions are essential in matching us to the opportunities for ministry in a local church. Using our passions will insure we enjoy both personal and spiritual satisfaction from the tasks and ministries we perform.
God intended us to be passionate about our work for Him. If Jesus and the disciples had not been passionate about spreading the good news, the church would have died within the first generation. The apostle Paul would have never survived his imprisonment and the gospel message would have not been spread to the four corners of the earth.
Passion is that almost uncontrollable desire to obtain or to engage in certain activities.
AIM has attempted to list passions that will be helpful in fulfilling the task of ministry listed in this manual. Passion alone will not be sufficient to make the ministry successful, but is just one of the factors combined with all the other personal factors that lead to a fulfilling ministry.
Passions do not fall into spiritual and non-spiritual categories. They are simply passions. AIM believes that passions can and will be used by God when exercised with gifts and skills.