Originally preached at Tulip Street Church by Lucas Johnson

My plan was never to be a minister. I went to nursing school, dreaming of getting my nurse practitioner’s license and moving to Denver—somewhere with mountains, hip coffee shops, and definitely not Mitchell, Indiana. I’d grown up here and wanted something different.

But while in nursing school, I couldn’t escape ministry. My dad kept volunteering me to fill in at local churches, I started a Sunday school, became a deacon—and no matter how hard I tried to run from it, ministry kept pulling me back. Like Jonah fleeing from Nineveh, I was running from God’s call.

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