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Originally Posted by Truthseeker
Rght, but only 5 that were given to the church.
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Nonsense. Every Christian should be a minister, in the purest sense of the word, both to sinners and saints.
Matthew 20:26 "But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister;"
"minister" in the above verse means: an attendant; a waiter; a Christian teacher or pastor
1Pe 4:10 As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.
1Pe 4:11 If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion forever and ever. Amen.
"ability" - forcefulness, ability, might, power, strength
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
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