I Don't Want to be a Preacher

[KeptByTheWord]

Originally Posted by AreYouReady?

So right. People seemed to be geared into traditional positions. Ministering can happen just walking in the mall. Maybe you sit on a bench and somebody else sits on the same bench with you. Conversations about Christ strike up. People cry and need to know God is the answer. Those brief moments with people you do not know give them a hope in Christ.

All it takes is a little spark for them to seek Christ.

So true!

We are the BODY of Christ, each one of us, not just pastors.... If congregations were taught that they were part of the body of Christ, and taught to effectively minister to each other, much as the early church did...perhaps there wouldn't be so much burn-out in the pastor ministry if more pastors began to teach their saints that they are ministers too... we all are ministers in the body.

Romans 12:3-8
3 For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.

4 For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office:

5 So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.
6 Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith;

7 Or ministry, let us wait on our ministering: or he that teacheth, on teaching;

8 Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness.

DB: Do you teach in your church that all are members of the body, and that each and every saint has a ministry in the body of Christ? Just wondering....