Embracing Your Call As a Christian Communicator

You should introduce yourself as a writer,” the workshop facilitator said.  I couldn’t bring myself to say it.  That title made me feel like a fraud and a fake.  “Who am I kidding? I am not a writer,” I thought.  These were the early days of my first blog.  How could anyone call themselves a writer just because they posted a few blog posts on the internet? 

Writers were people with actual books in brick and mortar bookstores, that people paid their hard-earned money to buy.  The esteemed title of writer was not for bloggers like me.  Or was it?  Even though I did not have a book, I was still a writer.  I was in the infant stages of what would one day blossom into a published author. 

Maybe you find it difficult to call yourself a writer, speaker, or a business owner.  Maybe you don’t want to say it because your current state does not reflect what you think those esteemed people should look like. Have you considered that you might be in an infant stage? Infants don’t remain infants. If you feed and nurture them, they grow big and strong.

1 Peter 4: 10 – 11 encourages us to embrace the gifts we have been given. It says, “Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms. If anyone speaks, they should do so as one who speaks the very words of God. If anyone serves, they should do so with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ. To him be the glory and the power for ever and ever. Amen.”

We are to use what we have, where we are, the best way we know how, to glorify God with our gifts.  This includes all types of communicators. Even if you are in the infant stage like I was a few years ago, you are not a fraud or a fake.  If God has given us a gift, we cannot argue with the creator.  May each of us make the choice to embrace our gifts no matter what we think it should look like.

We are to use what we have, where we are, the best way we know how, to glorify God with our gifts.

— kia stephens, author

Reflection:

What gifts has God given you? 

How might He be calling you to use them? 

What title do you shrink back from using? Why?

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About the Author

Kia Stephens is the founder of Entrusted Women, which she created to equip Christian women communicators of color. A contributing writer for iBelieve.com, Proverbs 31 and Ministries she is a recurring speaker at She Speaks, the Beloved Women’s Conference, and the Entrusted Women’s Conference. She is also the host of the Hope for Women With Father Wounds Podcast.  Kia published her first book “Overcoming Father Wounds” with Revell Books.  When Kia is not writing or speaking she enjoys spending time with her family and friends.