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When is Writing Ministry?

H ere's an interesting question: Is Christian writing a ministry? I've heard people talk about writing as a ministry, though I've never thought of my books in that way. I've been involved in other things that I thought were ministry, including our church's website, which involves a great deal of writing, but I've never seen my novels in that way. Nor do I consider this blog a ministry, though I often write about some of the same things I write about for the church website. For a while, it didn't make sense. I began to question whether it was a matter of opinion. But it turns out that it isn't. It turns out that the distinction I made between this blog and the church website is correct, even though they are similar. In the course of responding to the topic on another blog, I looked up the term ministry and minister . Though many authors call their writing ministry because they see it as something they are doing for God, that is an incorrect understan...