#277: The Nobodies God Uses

thanks for laughing by the way i like that joke folks i don't care but before i tell you the kind of person that god uses i want to begin by busting a common myth and boy this myth lives in the christian mind today still i've tried to destroy it for the last 20 years and i've not made a dent and that myth is that there are two classes of christian there's the clergy and there's the laity Yes, the poor, miserable laymen.

And the clergy are the people who serve the Lord.

They do God's work.

And the laity are the consumers of what the clergy produce.

But the New Testament gives us a completely different image.

It never envisions a clergy-laity divide.

That division began in the third and fourth centuries, long after the New Testament was written.

And brothers and sisters, it's stuck and it's still with us.

Let me give you the portrait that the New Testament gives us.

One, every Christian is a servant of God.

Amen.

Two, every true Christian is a minister of God.

The word minister means servant.

Three, every true Christian serves the body of Christ.

Four, every true Christian does the Lord's work in some capacity.

And five, every true Christian is part of the priesthood of all believers, including the sisters.

Consequently, every Christian is included in the glorious privilege of serving the true and living God.

This is the real DEI, diversity, equity, and inclusion.

It's true.

Now, there are different giftings.

There are different functions.

For example, there are apostolic workers still today on the planet.

There are prophets.

There are evangelists.

There are shepherds.