09/21/19 KNOWING WHAT WE ARE DOING

09/21/19 KNOWING WHAT WE ARE DOING

I have often used the illustration that the men who lay the ties and the rails and tunnel through the mountain should not see themselves as putting down ties or rails or moving mountains. THEY SHOULD SEE THEMSELVES AS BUILDING A RAILROAD.

Likewise, those who lay tile, build walls, install baseboard, scrub floors, clean bathrooms, teach classes, sing songs should not focus on their present, individual task, but they should see themselves as EVANGELIZING, EDUCATING, EDIFYING... BUILDING THE CHURCH. Each individual task of "serving tables" is for the purpose of supporting the proclamation of the word of God in the ministry.

When the actual purpose is understood, then the urgency of each little, seemingly insignificant, part becomes a priority. There should be no less priority, urgency in any of the table serving or support ministries of the church than there is in the preaching of the word of God by the pastor.

Together we can turn the world, for the glory of God.