New Year. New You.

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You Are Better Than You Think

I watched all three seasons of The Guardian on Amazon Prime Video. It is a law drama created in 1999. It takes place in Pittsburgh. Great writing and also great acting. 

I am a fan of movies and TV series in which the main character grows from a not so great human being to a better human being. The Guardian accomplishes this with the character, Nick Fallon, played by Simon Baker.

In the very last episode, one of his mentors, Alvin Masterson, tells Nick quite unexpectedly, "You know, you are a better man than you think."

When I heard this a couple of weeks ago, it just hung in the air. It obviously stuck with me as I am writing about it. 

As I reflected on this sentence, I realize people who know me and love me have been saying this to me for years. 

For some reason, I never really heard it. I didn't want to hear it. But yet I can tell you each instance in which it happened. A dear friend told me this most recently at a Christmas party. Kathy tells me this all the time.

Why is it that I hear it yet deflect it? 

It is a high compliment which is humbling and causes self-reflection. But I must not want to believe it. Why?

In his first sermon of the New Year, Michael Youssef of Church of the Apostles talked about carrying the past into the future. Here are some quotes from his sermon.

"What happened last year does not matter."

"You are forgiven. Those sins are forgotten by God."

"Many of us want to go back to the past. Jesus says, don't go there!"

"The past and the future are connected. If you are always looking back, you are giving more weight to the past than the future."

"Burn the bridges of the past. Forget about it."
 
And then he went on...

"Face the future by trusting God."

"Keep your eyes on the audience of one."

Seeing myself as the man of the past has hobbled my witness as a disciple of Jesus Christ. I have an internal dialogue going on. 

"Who are you to think you should pray with people? 

"What makes you think God can use your story?"

"You are going to invite people to the High Tech Prayer Breakfast? You?"

Michael then talked about a story in the Old Testament from 1 Kings 19:19-21. It is here the great prophet of God Elijah approaches a man plowing a field, Elisha. 

He throws his cloak over Elisha signifying he is the next prophet. Elisha says goodbye to his father, immediately sacrifices the oxen and burns all the equipment which signified his prior life. He is only looking forward now. Called by God, he is a new man with new strength and a new purpose.

This was true for me. 

When I surrendered my life to Jesus, he threw his cloak over me. He said to me, "You know, you are now a better man than you think you are." 

2 Cor 5:17 I am a new man in Christ, the old is gone, and the new has come.

2018 is the year for the new man to trust in Jesus and the power of the Holy Spirit within me. I need to think of the better man.

 

Charlie Paparelli is president of High Tech Ministries, angel investor and blogger. Twice each week email subscribers to his blog receive his thoughts on being a successful entrepreneur and Christian leader.

Your Ministry Needs Your Help

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"I am not confident we will raise the money we need to raise this year," said the Director of Advancement to Dr. Bruce Wilkinson, President of Walk Thru the Bible.

My friend, Dr. Wilkinson recently told me this story. He said it was 2008, the year of the market crash. Housing values plummeted, and each day the Dow was setting new daily lows. The nation was feeling poor. Collectively, our net worth declined by 35%.

This was the climate when his Director of Advancement approached him with this warning.

"Why do you say that?" Bruce asked.

"I've been talking to some of our bigger donors, and I am getting the feeling they will be pulling back. If the big donors are reducing their commitments to us, then the smaller donors will follow," he explained.

“We have only one donor," Bruce said.

"Who?"

"God!" Bruce declared.

"He called us to this work. Our job is to please Him. We do this, and we will be fine,” he continued.

They hit their fundraising goal!

I'm struggling with fundraising as the leader of the High Tech Prayer Breakfast.

Just last month I was in our quarterly board meeting. I gave these wise and godly men an update on 2017 and outlined the strategy and goals for 2018.

Then I told them we need to raise over $60,000 from individuals. It sounded like a big number to me. But Bruce’s answer to his director of development keeps playing in my head.

God blessed our ministry mightily in 2017. I outlined 21 significant accomplishments of the ministry at the board meeting.

Most importantly we stayed on mission by advancing the Kingdom of God in our Atlanta tech community. People came to know Jesus.

2017 HTPB highlights

Many people became first-time table hosts. This is big. These are leaders in the Atlanta tech community who stepped out as ambassadors for Christ for the very first time in their lives.

The rest of the tables were covered by leaders who have been table hosts multiple times, some for twenty-five years.

Many of our guests, coworkers, and friends, over 1,400 total, heard the Gospel. And they heard it clearly and compellingly from two respected venture capitalists. 

Many also responded and committed their lives to Christ. Over two dozen told us this happened to them while others kept it in their heart.

Two hundred of our tech community attended Blitz Through the Bible. Many moved to Grace@Work groups after this event. People in our community are meeting and studying the Bible every week led by these great Bible study leaders. God is changing our community one man and one woman at a time.

Many stories shared encouraging the 80 plus HTPB leaders at the annual post breakfast celebration. We heard the stories of people who came to know Jesus at the breakfast. Their stories were a great blessing and encouragement to all of us. God is working through us.

Would you consider becoming a monthly donor?

The High Tech Prayer Breakfast and all the activity which comes from it accomplishes our mission. This is because of you.

We are the ministry, and the ministry is us. The High Tech Prayer Breakfast keeps each of us active in the Atlanta tech community for Christ. It is our personal ministry. 

Is there a better ministry to invest in than your own? 

If each of us gave $10, $25 or $50 per month, our goal would be achieved. 

The Prayer Breakfast, the leadership meetings, the Grace@Work partnerships and the encouraging leadership will continue with excellence.

More importantly, the truth Jesus spoke to all of us 2000 years ago will become a reality in all our lives. Make this your ministry. To paraphrase Nehemiah: We are doing a great work.

Please join me and become a monthly donor. Click here to join the community of monthly donors.

Merry Christmas!
Charlie

Charlie Paparelli is president of High Tech Ministries, angel investor and blogger. Twice each week email subscribers to his blog receive his thoughts on being a successful entrepreneur and Christian leader.

How a Profound Question Changed My Perspective

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The Question I Now Ask

How Do Make Life About God (Not Me)?

I am sitting in church listening to a sermon from R.T. Kendall. He is the former Senior Pastor of Westminster Chapel in central London. He retired in 2002 after 25 years.

He asked the question, “What happened to the Gospel?”

He went on, “If you were not a Christian and were listening to the sermons of the preachers today, you would think the Gospel is about prosperity, health, and wealth. This preaching is no longer about God; it is about us. We don't serve God. He serves us.”

What Do I Get?

Then Kendall said, “The question we are asking ourselves when it comes to God is, ‘What’s in it for me?’”

This got me thinking about other questions I ask myself from time to time.

  1. Why go to church on Sunday?
  2. Why go through the trouble of getting the kids ready?
  3. Why should I attend a Grace@Work Bible study group?
  4. Why should I be a table host at the High Tech Prayer Breakfast?
  5. Why should I share my faith with my friend?


I can see now how churches have turned into marketing organizations. They speak to me first. They work hard to reach me where I am. And their message has settled into my subconscious.

I know, because when I am asked to do something for God, I find myself struggling. I’m asking myself, “Is this my market? Is the work consistent with my calling? Does this match my spiritual gifts? Am I qualified?” In effect, I’m asking, “What's in it for me?”

Do I Need Jesus?

Kendall was speaking on the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther and the Reformation (October 31, 2017). He said, “The question being asked by society back then was, ‘Am I saved?’ The question being asked today is, ‘Do I need to be saved?’”

Wow! I think he’s right. That is the question people are asking? It was the question I was asking before I became desperate enough to know I needed saving. 

Our Society’s Extra Step

There is an extra step our society seems to have inserted in the process. First I need to be convinced I am a sinner separated by God. And only after being convinced of that will I entertain the question, “Am I saved?”

He was right. The question has changed. It is now about me, a man who is in control of my destiny. “Why do I need to be saved? What’s in it for me? I seem to be doing fine.” 

So what does the church preach to attract those of us who are asking the question, “Do I need to be saved?” Preach a better life now. “With God, you can be richer, more successful, and healthier than you ever thought possible. That’s what's in it for you.”

Lose Your Life

Yet Jesus said, “If you want to be my disciple, you will pick up your cross and follow me. If you try to save your life, you will lose it. However, if you lose your life for me and the Gospel, you will be saved. What good is it for a man to gain the whole world and lose his very soul.”

Having thought about this for a while, the question I am now asking myself is, “How do I make my life all about God and not me?” 

Charlie Paparelli is president of High Tech Ministries, angel investor and blogger. Twice each week email subscribers to his blog receive his thoughts on being a successful entrepreneur and Christian leader.

 

I don't need God. Why do you?

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I Don't Need God

Why Do You Need God?

“I am always so impressed with John and his relationship with God. He meets with God first thing every morning. He reads the Bible and prays every day. I am trying to get there, but I am having trouble,” said Mike, an insightful entrepreneur.

We were in the Thursday Grace@Work Bible study at the Atlanta Tech Village discussing the story of Joseph in Genesis 41. What struck all of us was how much Joseph trusted God with his life. 

I said, “Your issue is not about setting aside time to be with God. Your issue, and my issue is a question of need. Do you need God?”

What Should I Say?

Mike had invited me to speak about my most recent experience in Uganda. I was in Uganda to teach people how to be Kingdom Minded Entrepreneurs. This was a one week conference called Youth Ablaze. We had 10,000 delegates attend. Most of them were poor and looking for hope and a better future. 

When I am asked to speak to this group of young people, I am immediately brought to my knees with questions. Who are these people? How can I possibly connect with them? What can I say to a young man or woman who grew up with nothing, has nothing, and now is looking for something? They are 22 years old, and their family has endured multiple generations of poverty. What can I say? What should I say?

I Have No Answers

Good questions. I have no good answers. This creates the need for God. There is nowhere else for me to go to get answers which I know will be right. So I go to God and to Pastor Elijah. This is a conference intended to transform Uganda from a nation requiring aid to a nation of donors. That’s the big vision. That’s transformation.

When I Feel Inadequate

During my preparation, I can tell you I feel small and inadequate. Give me an audience of prospective entrepreneurs in Atlanta, and I am big and confident. I get these people. They are men and women who are well educated and well resourced. They are surrounded by an environment that encourages big dreams and rewards them with mentors and money.

Not so in Uganda. So what do I say? What would you say? You have to put together seven presentations which will take them from knowing nothing to starting their own business. That’s the challenge!

I believe only God can do this. Pastor Elijah says it best: “These people and the presenting speakers were called to this conference before the world began.” That’s a big thought from a very big God. Nothing is an accident. We are all here, all there, for a purpose. 

This Creates Big Need

When I come home to Atlanta, I backslide in my relationship with God. I am capable here. I have resources. I have connections. I know my market. I have relevant experience. I know what I need to do. I don’t need God.

Our Struggle

Mike said, “When I get up in the morning, I’m thinking about selling. What doors do I need to knock on today so I can make sales and meet payroll? This thought dominates my thinking, not time with God.” 

I asked, “Did you ever find yourself the night before payroll is due and you didn’t have the money? Nothing left to do. No time to do it. Not enough money to make payroll. Did that ever happen to you?”

“No,” he said. “My efforts have always got me there.”

I understand this completely. And, too often, I am that way. But God wants a relationship with us in good times and bad. I need Him even (or especially) when I don’t think I do. Why is it we want a relationship with Him only after we come to the end of ourselves? 

Charlie Paparelli is president of High Tech Ministries, angel investor and blogger. Twice each week email subscribers to his blog receive his thoughts on being a successful entrepreneur and Christian leader.

Genesis: In the Beginning

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In the Beginning...

How Blitz Through the Bible Began

I was tired but wired. I did my nightly routine of reading a couple of pages from a novel on my nightstand and then passed out. 

What I didn’t realize is my mind was working overtime on a seemingly intractable problem. I was the chairman of the High Tech Prayer Breakfast, and the year was 2009. 

The Problem

We wanted our table hosts to invite a subset of their High Tech Prayer Breakfast guests to a follow-up Bible study. But the table hosts just wouldn’t do it. There was never an issue with the table hosts sending invites for the breakfast, but a follow-on event invite got little cooperation.

I was awakened at 3 am. It came to me while sleeping. We were trying to solve the wrong problem. We had it backwards. The problem definition should be: How do we get our Prayer Breakfast guests to invite their table host to the next event? We were trying to solve this too simply. 

Compelling Event

I jumped out of bed and went to my home office. What event could we possibly create which would get this level of interest in our prayer breakfast guests?

In 1995 I had my first exposure to the Bible. I found it fascinating. It spoke to me personally. It revealed who God is and who Jesus is. I saw my life unfold in the family histories shared for close to four millennia. I was learning who I was with each page I turned. I never encountered any book like this. I was hooked.

I was fortunate back then to have some really gifted Bible study facilitators and mentors. These business people patiently brought me along and helped me find the answers to all my questions. They put up with my direct confrontations with love and maturity. Eventually, I wanted to learn more, to go deeper. They recommended I lead a Bible study. Me? I thought.

They left, and I took over. That was January 1995. Being a newbie at this Bible leadership, I invited other newbies to come learn with me. We weren’t sure how to learn the story of the Bible, so we started at the beginning. This is how we approached all the other books we read, so maybe it would work here too.

It turned out we were all former church goers. In traditional church services, they usually read an Old Testament passage and a New Testament passage. Most of us didn’t even know what Old Testament and New Testament meant. From our backgrounds, we’d all heard some parts of the Bible. We knew a couple of stories and characters. But none of us had any context on how it all fit together.

So we started together. We looked at the table of contents, went to the first page, and started reading. “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.” Let the discussion begin. We fought about everything. But we would always remind ourselves, we are here to learn what the Bible has to say, not just voice our opinions. 

That first time through the Bible took a year. We didn’t read every page but covered enough in sequence to get the whole story. We loved it and wanted more. We invited a few other friends who were where we were a year ago. They, too, wanted to learn about the message of the Bible. We showed up every week and so did the newbies. What was cool is they thought we were Bible scholars!

We continued leading studies like this for over ten years. The interest from new people never died out. 

The Answer: Blitz Through the Bible

So what event might our prayer breakfast guests find compelling? I slept on this one too. Once again, the idea hit me in the middle of the night. Take these prayer breakfast guests interested in the Bible through the book in two hours.

No way. I thought. How do I condense a one-year curriculum into two hours? I discussed this with Matt Stevens who was the president of the ministry, and he thought it was a good idea. He said, “But you have to allow time for discussion, too.” 

“You’ve got to be kidding?” We compromised and made it a two-and-a-half hour session. 

We decided to do it two weeks after the 2009 High Tech Prayer Breakfast. I dedicated a solid week to cramming the one-year curriculum into a couple of hours. It was an exciting event attended by close to two hundred people. We even had the guests do all the Bible readings. 

The Promise

We’ll be doing Blitz Through the Bible on October 20th from 7-9:30 am. It is an invitation-only event just like the High Tech Prayer Breakfast. If you’ve been invited to the breakfast and are interested in attending Blitz Through the Bible, be sure to ask your host to reserve a seat for you. 

In two and a half hours, you will learn:

  1. The Bible’s origin and authors
  2. How the Bible is organized
  3. Understand the story of the Bible
  4. Meet the God of the Bible and his plan for men and women
  5. Come to understand yourself in a new way


I look forward to seeing you at the High Tech Prayer Breakfast and Blitz Through the Bible. It's a lot of fun, fast-paced, and informative. In two and a half hours, we will review a book which covers four millennia. Imagine that! 

Charlie Paparelli is president of High Tech Ministries, angel investor and blogger. Twice each week email subscribers to his blog receive his thoughts on being a successful entrepreneur and Christian leader.

How I Developed a Deeper Relationship with a Golfing Buddy

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Invites Build Friendships

How the Breakfast Helped Me Develop a Deeper Relationship with a Golfing Buddy

“Our moral standards are established by our community at large, not from God,” said my friend Geoffrey.

That started it for me. 

I was sitting at dinner with Geoffrey, Phil, and Kent. We were in Hilton Head for our annual golf trip. We’ve been doing this get away for almost thirty years. It is always the last weekend of October. There used to be eight of us, but with life getting even busier, the crowd dwindled. But the four of us never missed.

Geoffrey was the grenade thrower. 

You know that kind of person. The one who always introduces a controversial subject by stating a strong opinion right from the outset. He’s doing it again, I would think. Over the years, he did it hundreds of times, and I used to bite every time. Eventually, only if it was important to me and those around us did I engage.

“The Bible, which is God’s word to man, defines the moral standard. God defines our moral standard,” I countered.

And off we went. 

We talked (and argued) for over an hour. Phil and Kent didn’t say a word. They just watched. As did the tables next to us. We were the evening entertainment. It was Geoffrey and me going head to head. 

His arguments were based on books he’d read and the life he’d lived. My arguments came from studies of the Bible and the life I’ve led. This included my life before submitting to Christ and after submitting to Christ. 

Geoffrey and I never discussed these topics until after I invited him to the High Tech Prayer Breakfast. I knew Geoffrey for six years prior to the invite. In fact, the invite to the breakfast provided me with a really convenient way to tell him I was now a Christian. 

I know the invite shocked him. 

He knew me intimately as we were partners in building a national business and had traveled together. 

Now I was inviting him to a “prayer breakfast.” He was quick to say yes so he might figure out what I was up to. I became a curiosity.

The breakfast changed our relationship. 

We stayed very close friends, but our conversations would always end in a faith discussion. He would give me books on what he believed and why he believed it. 

I would invite him to Bible studies, and he would attend. We never stopped talking about God. He was always fascinated by the change in my life.

Geoffrey died the weekend of our golf trip two years ago. I miss him terribly. Every time I watch or play golf, I think of Geoffrey. Every time I read the Bible, I want to reach out and tell him what God said to me. We were soulmates. 

Now Geoffrey is gone. 

I thank God for our friendship. But I also thank God for the High Tech Prayer Breakfast. It was this event which made a good friendship great. It allowed us to invite Jesus into our relationship. 
 

Charlie Paparelli is president of High Tech Ministries, angel investor and blogger. Twice each week email subscribers to his blog receive his thoughts on being a successful entrepreneur and Christian leader.

A SIMPLE INVITATION THAT CAN CHANGE A DESTINY

I sat at my first High Tech Prayer Breakfast. It was a Friday morning, October 1, 1993. I was invited by a friend, Robert Campbell. He was a Senior VP with Stockholder Systems and later it’s CEO. I knew Robert for over 14 years. We grew up in the tech startup business together.

I Was Very Nervous

I don’t remember who else was at the table. I was very nervous, for a couple of reasons. There were over three hundred people at the Doubletree Hotel Ballroom, and I felt like I didn’t know any of them. For the last ten years, I was head down operating businesses in Atlanta and elsewhere. I knew no one in town.

The program started shortly after I arrived which eased my discomfort. The keynote speaker was Wes Cantrell, CEO of Lanier World-Wide a division of Harris Corporation. 

I don’t remember anything Wes Cantrell said. As I think back, it was probably because I was so nervous that I couldn’t focus. When he finished his talk a guy named Bill Leonard got up to close the meeting. Robert leaned over to me and said, “This is the guy who founded the High Tech Prayer Breakfast."

Religion vs. Relationship

Bill talked about his relationship with Jesus Christ. He said, “It is not about religion. It is about relationship.” This hit me like a ton of bricks. I grew up Catholic, and I always thought my relationship with God was all about religion. This concept of a personal relationship with God through Jesus Christ was brand new to me.

When Bill spoke about his relationship with Jesus, he teared up. He spoke in measured short sentences. Clearly. With downward voice inflection. The words he was saying struck me because it was clear his words had deep meaning to him. 

After the Breakfast, I had a meeting with an investor friend. He asked, “Were you at the breakfast this morning?” 

“Yes, I was,” I answered.

“What do you think about that Bill Leonard guy? Can you believe he was talking all that religion stuff? He is a commercial real estate broker for crying out loud,” he said.

I said, “I’m not sure I believe what he was saying, but he sure did. Do you believe in anything the way Bill Leonard believed in this Jesus he was talking about?”

“No. I guess not,” he said.

That’s when I decided I needed to meet with Bill. I told him I was looking for some office space. Then I said, “I was impressed with all the technology people who attended the breakfast. You seem to know everybody. I was wondering if you could introduce me to these Christian business leaders?”

Bill asked, “Would you be willing to attend a Bible study? It is a men’s group which meets every Friday morning at a restaurant near Perimeter Mall. You’ll meet a lot of the guys there.”

Making New Friends

What Bill didn’t know was that I was eleven months sober through AA. My AA sponsor told me I had to find new friends if I was to stay sober. Over my lifetime I had accumulated some great friends. The problem was, they were all heavy drinkers. Thus the sponsor’s advice. But how does a forty-year-old man make new friends? Bill was giving me the answer.

In preparation for the first Bible study of my life, I looked all over the house for a Bible. I found a discolored green Bible which Robert Campbell had loaned me over ten years ago. When I pulled it off the shelf, it was dusty, and all the pages were swollen. I must have dropped it in water at some point. But it was the only Bible I could find.

My nervousness for this Bible study exceeded my nervousness for the Breakfast. I pictured myself at a table with five guys all who knew what they were doing. I would be the only idiot who knew nothing, absolutely nothing, about the Bible.

6:45 AM Bible Study

I walked into the restaurant at 6:45 am and was greeted by the friendliest man on the planet. He introduced himself and gave me a warm handshake. He escorted me to the coffee station and began introducing me to the other men. As I looked around the dining room, there had to be over 60 men there. I felt better but still uncomfortable.

Week after week, those guys loved on me. They shared their lives with me. They taught me all about the Bible. They demonstrated to me what it looked like to have a personal relationship with God. I had never felt the warmth like that in any business meeting I attended. They loved me and understood me. We were all in technology, and we were all excited to learn about Jesus and each other.

Eight months later I gave my life to Christ. 

Thanks to Robert Campbell. He never gave up on me. As ugly as I was to him about his faith over the years, he knew Jesus would do a miracle in my life. And the miracles continued.

It all started by accepting Robert’s invitation to a breakfast. That’s all I had to do. Unbelievable!


Act Now: Only 15 Tables Left


There are only fifteen tables left for this year’s High Tech Prayer Breakfast. Are you ready to watch Jesus do a miracle in a friend’s life? All you have to do is get a table then invite your friends. If you are interested in joining the leadership team by becoming a table host email Amie Hood, Director of the High Tech Prayer Breakfast.

Charlie Paparelli is president of High Tech Ministries, angel investor and blogger. Twice each week email subscribers to his blog receive his thoughts on being a successful entrepreneur and Christian leader.

How God Miraculously Provides Exactly What We Need

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“I decided I needed to read the Bible and figure out what all the fuss was about. I read it from cover to cover and then gave my life to Jesus Christ,” said my friend Bruce Cook.
 
“You read the Bible and understood it without any help and knew that’s what you needed to do?” I asked incredulously.
 
Love and Persistence Wins
 
“That’s right. The message of the Bible was clear. I understood God wanted me to be in a relationship with him, but my sin and attitude toward Him separated us. Jesus was the answer to this reconciliation,” he explained.
 
Bruce is a Georgia Tech grad who went to Harvard for his MBA. His classmates at Harvard were witnessing to him. He kept blowing them off, and then, one day, because of their love and persistence, he decided to read the Bible. 
 
“A short time later I was to tell them my story of how I came into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ,” he said.
 
“That was fast. You just became a disciple of Christ,” I said.
 
My Stuttering Miracle
 
“That wasn’t a problem. My problem was stuttering. I couldn’t get a sentence out without stuttering. How was I going to tell my story to a group of people? My parents tried everything to get me past this issue but to no avail. So I avoided public speaking all my life,” he said.
 
“What happened?” I asked.
 
“I believed God wanted me to tell my story, so I agreed to do it. When I stood in front of the class, I was very nervous. I began to speak. I didn’t stutter once, and I never stuttered again for the rest of my life,” he said.
 
“That very day God gave me exactly what I needed to tell His story. I went on to use this gift to continue telling the story of what God did in my life. I spoke in all kinds of venues to all kinds of people all over the world,” he said.
 
“So you were given what you needed when you needed it,” I said.
 
Just in Time Spiritual Gifts
 
“Yes. But it only came when I stepped out of my comfort zone and trusted Him. Many Christians take spiritual gifts tests at their churches. They are more personality tests than spiritual gifts tests. These tests tell us what we already know about ourselves. We use the results as an excuse as to why we don’t serve or give or teach or evangelize,” he explained.
 
He went on, “God is bigger than that. God gives us the spiritual gift we need when we need it. If we are obedient by doing what He calls us to do, He will equip us with everything we need to succeed. That is God.”
 
Is God Calling You to Be a Table Host?
 
If God wants you to be a table host, then do it. He will give you what you need at just the right time. If you agree to be a table host and face rejection, where will you turn? To God. He gives us these opportunities to speak to draw us closer to Him. 

Are you willing to trust Jesus?

If God is calling you to be a table host at this year’s High Tech Prayer Breakfast sign up now.

Charlie Paparelli is president of High Tech Ministries, angel investor and blogger. Twice each week email subscribers to his blog receive his thoughts on being a successful entrepreneur and Christian leader.