We all have a part in ministering doesn't matter what your position is.

I had a cool talk with one of our Lead Volunteers here at Oak Leaf this week.  We were discussing how he was handling the ‘management’ of some of our volunteers.  I use that term ‘managing’ loosely because if you knew this guy then you would know people look up at him as the caring leader type.

As I was standing there I also told him that as far as his volunteers were concerned he was the one speaking for God during our weekend service times.  He was the one making our volunteers aware that we had guests that were coming that had a divine appointment with God that day.  The way that they behaved affected our guests in connecting with God.

This particular leader understood the commitment involved here and what was at cost.  What he did find hard to believe was that he himself was working along with God.  Paul says in I Corinthians 3:9 that we are ‘co-workers’ with God and that means he is every bit a minister as I am.

Which brings me to this.  As a church leader we have to be constantly aware of helping our people, across every area of influence (ministry) realize the fact that they have just as much at stake here as we do.  We all are partners in this church.  We work together while working with God.  When you are called to God through Christ it’s not just for your benefit.  You have been given the task of ministering to other people.  And if you are a ‘Leafer’ then that means you are to “Lead people from where they are to where God wants them to be”.