4月22日
各尽其职
“他所赐的，有使徒，有先知，有传福音的，有牧师和教师， 为要成全圣徒，各尽其职，建立基督的身体，”
以弗所书 4:11-12
大家都认为，去医院探望病人、饭前祷告、周三晚上带领查经，应该都是牧师的工作。毕竟，这就是教会聘请他的目的，对吧？我们因此付他工资。从一定程度上说，的确如此，但只是某种程度而已。归根结底，牧师就相当于牧羊人，牧师的工作是牧养教会的弟兄姊妹，使他们与耶稣建立更亲密的关系，让耶稣加力给他们做成善功。换句话说，并不是只有牧师才应该作主的工作。牧师也要带领、装备每一个人都去侍奉耶稣。
事实上，我们每一个基督徒都有责任和使命去侍奉。这个世界永远有很多的善事需要人去做，所以上帝也呼召你使用自己的恩赐，去造就他人。今天就发挥你的恩赐吧，要知道你正在影响这个世界。
今日祷告：
主耶稣，让我为你作工。不要让我叫别人来为我完成我该做的工作。阿们。
April 22 – Work for Everyone
Now these are the gifts Christ gave to the church: the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, and the pastors and teachers. Their responsibility is to equip God’s people to do his work and build up the church, the body of Christ.
E P H E S I A N S 4 : 1 1 – 1 2
People have assumed it is the pastor’s job to visit a sick person in the hospital, to pray before a meal, or to do the Bible teaching for Wednesday Bible study. After all, it’s what he was hired for, right? It is what we pay him to do. This is true to a degree, but just to a degree. Ultimately, the pastor’s job is to shepherd people (pastor means “shepherd”) to a closer relationship with
Jesus so that Jesus can empower them to do good work. In other words, the pastor is not the only person who is supposed to be doing ministry. He is simply supposed to equip people to work for Jesus.
The truth is that it is everyone’s calling to do work. There is no shortage of good things to do in this earth, so God has called you to use your gifts to do work that builds others up. Walk in your gifting today, knowing you are making a difference in this world.
Pray for the Day:
Lord Jesus, help me work for you. Don’t allow me to let others do my work for me. Amen.
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