HOW MANY MINISTERS?
How many ministers are there in your church? One? Three? If it's
a big church – eight or ten?
Before you answer that question, read Ephesians 4:11-12
carefully.
Here Paul shows that God gives pastors and teachers to his
church not to be the ministers of the church but to equip the ministers. Who
then are the ministers? All Christians are to be ministers, so you are one of
them.
The role of pastors and teachers is to train and equip the
“saints” (all believers) to be able to serve in whatever ways that God has
called them. So if a church has one hundred members and only one minister,
there's a big problem. We are all called to be ministers.
What is your ministry? In what ways are you using that training
and your gift(s) for the building up of the body? This is how we work together
in unity as a body of believers to accomplish the task God has set before us!
Each member a minister!
Ephesians 4:16 (NLT) – He makes the whole body fit together
perfectly. As each part does its own special work, it helps the other parts
grow, so that the whole body is healthy and growing and full of love.
