Title
A Kingdom of Volunteers
Scripture
Your people shall be volunteers in the day of Your power; in the beauties of holiness, from the womb of the morning, You have the dew of Your youth.
(Psalm 110:3)
Devotional
Here we have the pedigree of the church of Jesus Christ: an army of volunteers. It is not the clergy, but the laity that makes up the body of Christ. As a pastor, my job is to equip the church for the work of the ministry.[39] I am no more the minister of the church than any other member. Every believer is to be a minister. We are all to be ministers of the gospel of Jesus Christ. You show me a church where the pastor is the only minister and I'll show you a very small self-serving congregation. My job is to equip God's people that they may know how to live and serve Him in their generation; so that they may reach our community for the Lord Jesus Christ and equip others that they may know how to live and serve God in their generation and so forth and so on. Let me ask you; are you a faithful volunteer in your church, if not why not?