Every Christian is a Minister

We are all called to minister in behalf of the Lord Jesus Christ. Our separate ministries may be quite different from others but still is a ministry. Ours is to represent God to the world. Here are some qualities to consider for your ministry.

1. Assure yourself that you have a deep, inner sense of responsibility to the world through the whole gospel. The Bible is not just something of curiosity. Church on Sunday is not a duty to merely exercise. It is our textbook and guide through the week that we must study so that we know the whole by knowing the sum of the parts for successful living.
2. Seek to have a personal commitment to continuous growth that is theoretically, theologically, psychologically, and intellectually sound. This is a lifelong process for all of us. When we become Christians, we automatically become ministers. We have the opportunity for a positive struggle toward life and away from insignificance.
3. By having integrity, we could also have perception for God’s program. Our goal is set to know ourselves well and to know Christ better. If we have self-awareness for those areas where we are weakest to temptation, we have a target for accomplishment in our spiritual growth.
4. As we travel through life, invariably it will be in the company of others. Hopefully we allow them consciously to be our peers and partners. Those fellow pilgrims are not inferiors, nor superiors. This is to see an acceptance of our lives as they were meant to be rather than simply as the meaning of what our life seems to be.
5. It is in important for us to develop the ability to be alone; alone with God, along with our own thoughts, alone to learn and plan. Jesus is a great example to us. Even on the night he was betrayed in the Garden of Gethsemane, he left his disciples and went off to be alone with his Heavenly Father. In the quiet of aloneness, the Holy Spirit can speak to us.
6. In the service of our Lord, we need to discover our own limitations. It is there where we can learn and gain an ever-going dependence on God because we admit those areas that are challenging.
7. To be of use as God’s representative to other people, we have the opportunity to commit ourselves to creative thinking and caring as a way  for how we live. Merely thinking about the weakness and downfalls of other people is useless without being God’s agent to them.
8. The Bible does not condemn wealth. It condemns the wrong attitude and use  of it. Should we be blessed with affluence, our blessing is a way we can be a blessing to others.

This is a list of suggestions for us to consider in our spiritual growth. The empowered Christian is the one who maintains self-awareness for his position before God and his influence on man. The Christian who while walking that narrow path is the one who examines himself to be the most productive spiritual gift to the world.