Would You Put Timmy On Your Church Board?

[freeatlast]

We have people on different boards or commitees in our church.

If they want to be a paart of what we are doing we put them to work.

A man who serves as head of our compassion ministry, delegating charitable contributions into our community, helping both womens crisis center and mens shelter

Many of you wouldn't touch him. he smokes. Well he was smoking when he started this minisrty. He has succesfully quit smoking now for close to a year.

I recently had a 58 yr old man read from the word, from the pulpit, a selected reading from Psalms. He at that time was still smoking and i had recently spent an all nighter with him, as he had relapsed into a meth addiction.
Many of you wouldn't touch him as he is a 4 yr graduate of a UPC bible school, backslid , divorced, remarried looser.

But God didn't let me pick who I would reach out to, so I continue to minister God's love to guys like this...and today he is doing better, much better and hopes one day to have a ministry helping others who struggle with addictions.

We have had two women on our church board, whose counsel we have appreciated in making financial decisions.

The question remains would we have Timmy on our board. Timmy professes to be agnostic or whatever and although I appreciate Timmy's wit and wisdom, if Timmy came to our church and continued to NOT profess Christ we probably not have him on our church board.

But say Timmy did come to my church and had a talent in contracing and building and was willing to help us in a new building for example. We would welcome Timmys councel on these matters.