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The Career Call To Be Active In A Para-Church
Organization
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Series Note
~ In the first post in this
series, we considered the Universal Call to all mankind. Then we addressed those who accepted that
call. In posts 2-5 we looked at the new
responsibilities to accept the Obedience Call. In posts 6-12 we examined some new roles of those who accepted that
initial call. In posts 13-17 we are
considering a sampling of specific career calls.
Comment ~ At
times there are individuals and organizations that seem to have a narrow
picture of the universal Church of Jesus Christ. Scripture clearly teaches that we are all
part of one living organization. Many
strong and effective Christian groups are not local churches but organizations
that serve the body of Christ or the unchurched. Those who serve in para-church organizations
are also an active members in their local churches.
Scripture
~ “For as the body is
one and has many members, but all the members of that one body, being many, are
one body, so also is Christ. For by one
Spirit we were all baptized into one body — whether Jews or Greeks, whether
slaves or free — and have all been made to drink into one Spirit. For in fact the body is not one member but
many.
“If the foot should say, ‘Because I am not a hand, I am not
of the body,’ is it therefore not of the body? And if the ear should say, ‘Because I am not
an eye, I am not of the body,’ is it therefore not of the body? If the whole body were an eye, where would be
the hearing? If the whole were hearing,
where would be the smelling? But now God
has set the members, each one of them, in the body just as He pleased. And if they were all one member, where would
the body be?
“But now indeed there are many members, yet one body. And the eye cannot say to the hand, ‘I have no
need of you;’ nor again the head to the feet, ‘I have no need of you.’ No, much rather, those members of the body
which seem to be weaker are necessary. And
those members of the body which we think to be less honorable, on these we
bestow greater honor; and our unpresentable parts have greater modesty, but our
presentable parts have no need. But God
composed the body, having given greater honor to that part which lacks it, that
there should be no schism in the body, but that the members should have the
same care for one another. And if one
member suffers, all the members suffer with it; or if one member is honored,
all the members rejoice with it” (1 Corinthians 12:12-26).
~
Robert Lloyd Russell, ABUNDANT LIFE NOW blog.
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