Episode 17 – Interview with Roger
Every once in a while, you come across a man that just amazes you with how he acts. He’s so finely tuned to operate in exactly that role that he must have been born into it. What’s even more amazing is when you learn that he hasn’t been doing it for all that long, really. In fact, that role is a part of a substance addiction recovery program.
Huh?!
That was my experience meeting Roger. So calm and soft spoken. Authoritative and respectable. Smiles and handshakes. So deaconly in his ways. I remember thinking I wanted to be that type of Biblical man. Then I learned that he was actually in the recovery program. What an amazing work God must be doing in His life!
So many times, I think of deacons and overseers as having everything together. Wife, kids, home, steady job and a hobby to make the world a better place. I saw Roger just the same as any deacon man I had met before. I had placed such an expectation on men who look like Roger, that the fact that he was in a recovery program completely caught me off guard.
The reality is that God is using him, in the midst of his recovery, to:
Serve an average of 1,500 meals daily (500,000) yearly
Manage 30-50 men in food ministry work discipleship programs
Handle approximately 1 million pounds of goods donated to the Dream Center Food Bank
Prepare 300 hot meals daily for Church Under the Bridge Ministry
Coordinate Food Chapel, feeding 55,000 each year with a meal and the Gospel message
Listen, Biblical man: This is God’s world. He will use whomever He wants, whenever, where ever and however He sees fit. If you think you need to clean yourself up before God would want to use you, think again! God is so amazingly wonderful at making all things new that He wants to use YOU to build His Kingdom. WHAT!? Yup.
But my addictions, my sin, my unbelief…
The enemy will use any lie to keep you feeling closed off from God.
Turn your “God couldn’t possibly…” arguments into “But God did/is/will…” statements and see what happens.
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