March 29, 2007
Job Description
One of our past church staff started to walk past a lady struggling to roll a piano to another location in the Fellowship Hall. When she asked him for help, he continued walking and replied, “That’s not in my job description.” Say what? I’m so glad his sister in Christ didn’t ask him to wash her feet.
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Gail;
-----What an unfortunate revelation of who was the employer of this church staff person. Of course, the equivalent term for “employer” in use during Jesus’ time would be “master”. I am glad that we are not judged by individual actions and events. I am glad we are not even judged by individual attitudes. But there is a kind of summing up of all of these which begins to reveal a certain nature about our basic fiber. I believe it is in that nature that our new man comes to life for a new employer.
-----I believe that new nature has to navigate through a forest of old growth in order to get to a clearing and effect our words and actions. Some folks are fortunate enough to have had the Lord work His way into the depths of their old growth forest with a very long bladed chain saw. He seems to have come into the lives of others with a small machete. From some, that new nature seems to burst into the open so easily, while others sometimes give you cause to wonder if it is even somewhere in the forest.
-----It has always seemed to me that the New Testament intimates that those whom He desires to be in the lead of His body are those whose nature continuously makes it out of the woods to be observable in the clearings. It at least makes sense that they ought to be the ones who have the old growth under control with the paths the Lord has slashed out at least somewhat maintained. But somehow religion has become an activity, serving the Lord has become an action, and the multitudes of such phony events as you describe just keep growing up from the seeds of the old trees.
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