It's a cool, brisk Thursday afternoon in South Florida. I am preparing to drive back to Orlando tonight. I am scheduled to fly into COLD Buffalo, NY tomorrow morning. I am just getting on the other side of a cold that I have been fighting all week. So, we will see what happens with that.
As many of you know, in addition to being a Senior Pastor, I am also a Web/Media Consultant, Motivational Speaker, and Coach. I LOVE what I do. I love meeting people. I love helping people. When you really think about it, all of what I do is ministry. Ministry means to serve. A minister is a servant. I am a servant of the Lord Jesus Christ and I wake up EVERY morning ready to serve Him and people. There is nothing like knowing what your calling in life is. Finding your calling in is causitive...it causes you to become fulfilled in life. Finding your calling is also creative..it creates revenue for you. But what is so wonderful is that, when you are living what you were created to do, you would do it whether you make an income or not!
Now, that we have that out of the way. One of the ways I do what I do is through the internet. In addition to pastoring a "traditional brick and mortar" church, I also am an Online Pastor. Now that term somewhat evolved ove the last 14 years of being online. YES, fourteen years. I have been online back in the days of Prodigy and America Online dial-up where it literally took almost five minutes to logon. Every since then people from all over the globe have reached out to me for prayer and advice spiritually. Even to this day, bewteen my personal website and my social networking profiles, I have, at any given time, as many as 10,000 friends that have access to me. Trust me, sometimes it seems as if they all are emailing me at the same time. But, it's not a problem. i answer ALL my emails personally. Sometimes it takes awhile, but I get through them!
Throughout the last fourteen years off "online ministry" I have met some awesome people. I have met people of all races, nationalities and religious beliefs. There are some sincerely wonderful people in the world! I cannot begin to tell you how fulfilling it is just meet many of you. To some I hvae become an online pastor. To some I have become a friend; a coach; a counselor; and a mentor.
However, there are some that would like to become their boyfriend...husband...lover...baby daddy...or a combination of all of the above. Yes, it is true. I'm not exactly sure why, but that's besides the point.
Let me be clear, I am NOT online looking for love. I am on here to provide my personal and ministry resources to you that are reading this. If I want to look for love I would put a profile on match.com or faithmate.com. (Both of which I have had a profile on. OK, shoot the preacher for being real! They both are really great sites for meeting people.)
So, to all the single ladies out there...I don't mind you emailing me. I don't mind you reaching out to me. But if you are reaching out to me because you want me to be your man...WRONG ANSWER! If you want to be friends, with no motives, WONDERFUL! If you try to run me down, you are gonna run me over because I'm not moving. The buck stops here!
The Bible says, "He that finds a wife, finds a good thing and obtains FAVOR from the Lord." A few years ago, I went through a divorce. It was a horrible experience. And, I messed up. It was primarily MY FAULT. (There I go being real again!) I am not going to make the same mistakes again. So I am going to make sure that whenever the Lord allows me to find HER...and she already knows who she is, I will obtain the favor of the Lord again in my life. Until such time that God does whatever He is going to do, stop trying to run me down ladies. It's a turn off! Chivalry is not dead. Ladies, stop telling me that God said I am to be your husband. If that is true, don't you think that God, in His omnicience and omnipotence, would whisper that to me as well? Hmmm. If you have to tell me I'm your husband...something is eerily wrong.
Now, I will probably lose many friends on my social networking sites. I will probably get many emails in response to this. I will probably have just as many questions too. Whatever. I've gotten it off my chest now. Like the old song says, "I feel better, so much better, since I laid my burdens down! Glory, Glory, Hallelujah, since I laid my burdens down!"
One more thing...
I am not referring to any one person in particular. But if you are offended and this "hits" you, I declare I didn't mean to miss you!
Have a wonderful day.
Pastor Robert L. Carpenter, II
YOUR Online Pastor & Personal Motivator
www.robertcarpenter.org
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WOW, you mean that thing dont you. I hope that you got it all off your chest and can get on to FINDING that one true mate. My brother, I wish you all the best in your search.
ReplyDeleteBut don't feel bad, we as women go through the same thing. A guy sees your page and figures that all you are there for is to meet men. For some women that may be true, but for us real women, such as myself, its a huge turnoff!!! So I can understand completely where you are coming from.