If you study Biology, you’ll learn that animals thrive when they find their niche. The place where their skills, body shape, habits, etc. make them more suited to survive than any other animal. The place where they belong. If you take an animal to a new area, it will either find a niche and start doing something better than all the other animals, or it will die off within a few generations.

We, as believers in Christ, have a spiritual niche. That place where we are doing what God has not just called us, but thoroughly equipped us to be. That place where we fire on all cylinders. Where our gifts, talents, passions, etc. all ignite at the same time. Yesterday James and I did some talking about each of our niches. You see, recently we’ve both been operating outside of our own niches, and, just like the animal that never finds his niche, we were headed for some series burnout. So, what did we do? Well, we decided to re-evaluate what each of us was made and called to do. The outcome? Well, I’m going to be taking a smaller role in message/series preparation and he is going to take a smaller roll in micro-managing.

I’ll write some more about my own personal niche a little later, but for now, is your area of service really your niche? If so, I’d love to hear some of the ways in which God has prepared and called you to serve there. Go ahead, comment away, it won’t hurt. I promise.