Do you find that some situations where I have called you to serve me do not yield to easy answers and quick resolutions? Your cultural conditioning leads you to expect that everything will, but that is not true. This is particularly true of people who insist on being the way they are, even when it is not working for them. Attachments and false ways of being can be hard to break, and you can suffer from compassion fatigue. So I exhort you not to grow weary in well doing, for you shall reap if you do not faint. Your culture expects immediate gratification, but this is not a Kingdom principle. Patience is not passivity. It is diligent and steadfast enduring. 

Do you make an effort to be tolerant and accepting of those who are different from you? Do you find that not everyone makes the same effort in return? Are you surprised to find that some people who are narrow and intolerant still have worthwhile spiritual insights? Are you open to learn from them? This requires you to look past their narrowness to be open to receive from them. Do not expect them to do the same thing for you. Yet this doesn’t have to be an equal exchange. Be glad that you are open to benefit from what they know even if they are not open to learn from you.  

Do you go to an evangelical church? Does that make you an evangelist? It is one thing to affirm in principle the importance of reaching the lost with the gospel message. It is another thing to do it. My word lists evangelists as a special office and calling. Do you think of these only as those who organize mass crusades? Yet you know people who have a special ability to share the gospel message effectively without holding large rallies. My word tells you to desire spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy. If you want to have a heart for the lost that you may reach them effectively you can ask me for that and I will give it to you. 

Were you raised in the faith, and did you grow up thinking that the way you learned was the only way? When you were older and learned that other people did things differently did you feel that yours was the only right way? As you advanced in maturity were you able to see that some of the practices you were raised with were not optimal or superior? An even further advancement of spiritual maturity is to seek to combine the best of everything without becoming an opponent of what you leave behind. Cast you net wide, and sort out your catch on the deck, gathering the good into your own vessel.