Doing God’s work… Oh, that’s for the paid staff of the church.

I recently had a friend on Facebook post this:

“The frequency with which people assume that I'm an ordained minister is amusing.”

Now to be honest, I thought that he was too. He is technically a pastor, since he is an elder in his church. And Elder biblically is the same office as a pastor. But he isn’t an ordained minister.
After reading this, I started to write something on his page. But I felt like this comment needed more than just a short Facebook comment. This past Sunday we had guy come to our church from Prayerstand.com. He did a presentation about the prayer stand offered on the site. I recommend every church get one, however that’s not the reason for this post. The reason for this post is something Tom talked about during his presentation. He talked about how in most of the churches today the paid staff of the church is looked at to do all the spiritual work and outreach. The paid staff is looked upon to disciple, mentor, bring in new people, convert those people, etc. It’s like the people of congregation are saying we’re not paid to do the work of God, that’s what we pay you. I believe this is the reason for church attendance declining and the US being declared a mission field. We as Christians in the US have become to comfortable. We have become OK with mediocrity. We’ve become OK with our friends and family going to hell. This is what the bible commands us to do:

Mat 28:19 NKJV - "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,

This verse is not just talking to, priest and preachers only. This verse is talking to all disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ.  So it is time that we take hold of this verse, and do what it says. It’s time we bring so many hurting people into our church buildings that fire codes are broken. It’s time that people start coming to you and asking “are you an ordained preacher?”