The One Year Bible - Day 195

We see today the correct format for serving in church. The leadership arrange for the practical people to carry out their operations. This is important because lots of churches seem to have a continual tension between leaders who decide things by themselves without regard to the operations and practical people who feel they are not free to do things properly or who are not allowed to make decisions such as where to spend money. It is important that the practical people are empowered to run things practically as the Apostles dictated to the Deacons in Acts and it is also important that the Leadership are happy that the practical arrangements being made for the running of churches are appropriate to the vision of the church. As with many things in life, a balance is required between hands on and hands off. I remember a church leadership discussing for 2 hours whether to buy a mobile phone for emergency church use (there was no land line) even though it would only cost £30 or something!