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Why I Don’t Label my Wife as My Ministry Partner

Darwin Cruz
5 min readSep 19, 2021

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I don’t call my wife my ministry partner simply because it’s my preference.

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Marriage is the second-most significant decision in our lives. That’s why we are ought to carefully think about choosing a lifetime partner in life. It is either we would experience heaven or hell on earth for the rest of our lives if we make a mistake. However, I noticed that most people consider their marriage as God doing match-making for them. God has created each one of us uniquely and called us according to His own purpose for His glory.

Having this kind of mindset that God made a love story in heaven and just simply assign “who is for who?” like a puzzle is not so like His thing. While it may sound good and spiritual to say that a lifetime partner is a ministry partner, I opted not to do that with my wife. Here’s why:

All Christians are my Ministry Partner

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If everything is special, then nothing is special. — Joshua Milburn

All Bible-believing believers are called to the Great Commission of our Great Master — our Lord Christ. Meaning, we are all cadets under our Great Commander. There is…

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Darwin Cruz
Darwin Cruz

Written by Darwin Cruz

A pastor and counselor who is very passionate about faith, mental health, tech, simplicity, mindfulness, productivity and intentional living.

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