We are told to do God’s work since birth. So, we always try to get involved in Church activities every Sunday and apart from Sundays, we part take in ministry work like participate or conduct cottage prayer meetings, sharing the Word of God with neighbors and so on.
Did God say that we should all be involved in doing God’s work in the way I mentioned earlier?
Is that biblical?
Did God ask everyone to do God’s ministry in the way I mentioned earlier? In fact, did God ask everyone to share the Gospel ?? Shocking? Just hold your breath.
If so, then why did He ask only the eleven disciples to come to the place where He was about to depart? Why did He then only ask them to go and baptize ?
Matthew 28:16 (NKJV)
16 Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, to the mountain which Jesus had appointed for them.
Matthew 28:19 (NKJV)
19 Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
After reading these verses, I hope you would agree with me that God did not ask everyone to do God’s work as I mentioned earlier. He asked specifically His eleven disciples to take the gospel throughout the world.
Then what should others do? Should we not contribute to God’s ministry? If so, in what way?
You have to understand a character of God to understand this topic. God is a very organized person. He came to this world to save us and He came to die which nobody disagrees; meaning everything was well organized before He landed on this world; from how should He be born until how He should die on the cross. Moreover, He wanted the gospel to be spread throughout the world through which others, even gentiles would come to God.
So, I would say like this…
When He came into this world, He prepared himself for 30 years and started His ministry. When He started His ministry, He also started a Bachelor degree program to train few people so that they would be able to carry out His work taking the gospel throughout the world which was His original intention.
The degree program constituted 3 years of training and 6 months of internship !!!
Initially, He admitted 12 people and later few more.
Now, my question is “Why didn’t He just preach the gospel and train everyone in the same way?” If at all, His intention was to just keep everyone in the circle, He could have just shared everything to everyone and asked or even commanded everyone to carry out ministerial work. But, He did not do that. He did everything in a very organized manner.
Let’s come to our earlier question. What should others do? How should others contribute to the ministry? I’m telling you that He has also very well organized plan; the way how others should contribute to His ministry.
God has given special talents for everyone with which we decide our profession. In whatever profession we are, God says that He will bless us abundantly and to understand how He blesses us, you should really read my articles God’s Will, God’s guidance and Why tithe. We have been commanded to give Tithes and that’s it. This mechanism would sufficiently enable the Church to carry out the gospel work with specially appointed people to work in the ministry.
Now, the problem in our ministries today is that they lack funding for everything. Even to buy an audio system, they have to ask the Church to give specifically for a purpose. Apart from this, since they could not employ people due to lack of funding, they ask everyone to share the work, calling it “contribution to the church and hence, God’s work”.
You may ask so what?
Because people work putting their heart and soul on Sundays, they are tired; even sleepy on Monday morning when others who did not go to Church are fresh. This leads to lack of concentration in their job whatever they do and consequently, they don’t concentrate how to develop in their profession. Hence, no success; no growth. For such people, even if God wants to bless them, He can not. Because if you have read my articles on God’s Will, God’s guidance and Why Tithe, you would understand how He blesses us. He simply gives ideas to our sixth sense; logical reasoning. These people are not at all in the realm of receiving His ideas as they are not even putting heart and soul to their profession, instead, they are putting their heart and soul to the ministerial work on Sundays because some stupid has told them that that is the God’s Work.
I’m telling you that your profession is your God’s Work. Because, only through which He will bless you and consequently, Church will have enough funding through Tithes to carry out God’s ministry of taking the gospel to the ends of this world as He intended.
Going to church every week was commanded by Jesus. It is because that is where God’s Word is preached. Preached for what? To know and receive God’s ideas to excel in your profession; to increase our relationship with Him; to better understand Him; to better understand Holy Spirit and so on. This shouldn’t be a practice only on Sundays. Every day, meditate on His Word, pray, spend time with Him so that you maintain a good relationship.
The Bible says that we can not serve two masters…You can not work for ministry and for your company. Just use the power of God and His guidance and excel in whatever you do.
Deuteronomy 28:12 (NKJV)
12 The LORD will open to you His good treasure, the heavens, to give the rain to your land in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand. You shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow.
And by the way, you should be doing something with your hand. Because it says, God will bless only the work of your hand !!! That’s why I’m saying that your profession is your ministry.
Do it good and God will make it perfect. Also, read the article, Your Ministry.