GoD's WorK - God's Puzzle Solved

76 God’s Workwill instead be dying spiritually.What Is The Ministry To Do?The Bible tells you who is to be a minister. According to theirgifts, the ministry and the church have a calling with a varietyof responsibilities. Some should help the poor in the church,while others should be hospitable, visiting the sick, helping thewidows and orphans and assisting the elderly. Still others offerwisdom and knowledge. The key is in the word “diakonos,”which means “a servant who benefits others” and not themselves.You must all offer your lives as a living sacrifice. Your only exampleis Christ.Ministry Of The WorldNow to those servants or ministers of Christ, who are responsiblefor The Word of God. You will find the ministry in the churchis selected exclusively by God, just as God personally calls eachchurch member. No human is involved in this decision and notany graduate from a theological school, seminary or religious college.God directly chooses the ministry of The Word. No oneis trained to be a minister of the “word,” nor can he be one whocan decide for himself to go into the true ministry of Christ, as anoccupation or profession. Rather, it is a calling. But, from timeto time, a person will state that he knows, in his heart, that Godwants him to give himself to the ministry. Biblically, this is notGod’s “way.” Everyone in the church is a minister by the giftsGod gives. It is a matter of which gifts God gives and not yourheart.Paul shows there are Elders (leaders) in the church who are oldermen (I Timothy 5:1). These older men (Elders) who have lived