Thursday, 1 September 2011
The One Year Bible - Day 224
In Nehemiah 3, they are rebuilding Jerusalem. In a way that is quite unusual for the OT, it is everyone who is doing the work, not specialists or hired help. I heard once about a church in Sweden where the building got erected by everyone in the congregation. This was probably quite cool in a team building way but in a Spiritual sense, is our church 'built' by everyone or just a few people? The Bible is quite clear that everyone has a place but does our setup allow for that or does it encourage and allow a few people to dominate most ministries? Sadly, most churches seem to do the latter, especially with employed workers who are understandably expected to do more work than people who do it in their spare time but therein lies the problem. Should we have so many people working for the church or should we have more part-time volunteers? Even someone working for free is in danger of doing too much at the expense of others.
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