Kings and priests: 'we need each other'
There seems to be a great confusion within the body of Christ regarding the term ‘calling’. When hearing the word ‘calling’, many people simply assume that the term is limited to the ‘five-fold’ ministries (pastor, teacher, prophet, evangelist and apostle) and to a worship-singing task (to a certain extent). In Ephesians 2:10 the Bible states: ‘ For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.’ The Bible says that we were created to do good works. It doesn’t limit those works solely to the pulpit. One of the top mistakes that ‘five-fold’ ministers do is to narrow down the word ‘calling’ to a pulpit task. For many Christians, it is inconceivable that God would call someone to a task different from a ‘five-fold’ ministry task. Imagine if we were all called to a pulpit task? That would not make sense. In James 3:1, the Bible even goes deeper by saying: ‘ Not many of you should become teachers, my fellow believers, because yo...