Exporting success

It is essential that those who play a part in building the church have a clear experience of the power of the Almighty in transforming their own lifes. If it doesn't work at home, then what makes you think that it will work anywhere else?

Service to the church is not a repository for God's cast-offs, misfits who have failed in other ventures and finally decided that the only thing left for them to try is full-time Christian service. Yes, God loves failures; and our determination of failure is not the same as his. But if we believe that the Good Lord deserves the best, then this means that it is the responsibility of those who are the most gifted to earnestly examine whether He has called them to set themselves apart for his service.

This is not to deny that the less than perfect can hope to receive the call. The Bible is full of the stories of men and women who blew their chances of success, who blundered into God's call. God will call whoever will listen and serve, regardless of age, family background, gender, reputation, physical appearnace or academic ability.

But if we are serious about service, we need to also be serious about stewardship, study, sin, speech...

We may not all have the gifts to be the best preacher, evangelist, Bible teacher, pastor - but we can all strive to be the best we can be at whatever the Lord brings our way.

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