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Friday, May 17, 2013
We Are All Created With a Special Ministry Assignment
The fact that every Christian has a special ministry calling is central to unleashing ministry passion in churches. When someone pursues their special call to ministry, as we have already seen, they do as servants, not volunteers. As long as the clergy are thought of as the church’s servants and the rest of us are their volunteers we are in deep trouble.
Eph 2:10, “For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.” The “we” in this passage does not refer to the clergy it refers to those who have been redeemed through faith in Christ. This is a powerful statement. It says that God actually prepared certain good works for each of the saints, (the Ephesian letter is addressed to the saints, 1:1).
Eph 4:1 “As a prisoner for the Lord, then I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received.” Every saint has received a calling and that calling has two parts. First there is the General Calling which is the same for every Christian. Then there is the Special Calling and that is different for each Christian.
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1 comment:
Amen Rich...having had to fight to find income in the last two years I am now once again working as an educational psychologist with students, families and site teams for kids with special needs. This past week in particular reminded me of how I am called to do this! Thanks for the thoughts!
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