Encourager
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Being Light Where We Live

God never intended for us to sit in pews and pay our church staff to do the ministry. God intended them to equip us to go out and do the work of the ministry, to be salt and light where God has placed us, where we live. The God of the universe has called you to a unique role that only you can fulfill.

Richard Halverson, chaplain of the United States Senate for fifteen years, put it this way:

There is a difference between church work and the work of the church. When church work is being done, the church is gathered and visible, as on Sunday morning. When the work of the church is being done, the church is scattered and invisible like Monday morning…. The work of the church is what the members of the church do between Sundays - business, industry, homemaking, education, sales, agriculture. Like salt, the church is doing its work when scattered, when penetrating and becoming invisible. Salt confined in a shaker is useless. But salt scattered with a purpose has limitless uses, flavoring food, softening meat, or healing a wound. In Matthew 5:13 Jesus declared, "You are the salt of the earth."

Above taken from: Show and then Tell ~ by Kent & Davidene Humphreys

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