4/4 - The key to transformation By JSalum
All of us are called to full-time ministry. This is the most basic concept that must be understood in order for transformation. Even after many years this concept still hasn’t been perceived in our studies of Scripture.
All of us are called to full-time ministry.
A majority of the time, if not all the time when the New Testament uses the term “minister” it is referring to all saved people, in the same way that the term “disciple” is used.
This religious division between “clergy and lay” doesn’t exist biblically, it is heretical.
All saved persons are priests and ministers of God.
The carpenter, the teacher, the student, the housewife, the doctor, and the engineer alike… All are priests and ministers of God, if born again. They are just as anointed as the “pastor.”
The transformation effect of the Gospel occurs in the workplace and not in the “church”.
The second concept that must be understood and practiced by each of us as ministers of Christ, or have you will, each saved person, is that transformation doesn’t occur in “church”, but in the workplace.
The Church is the gathering together of the saved, of the transformed. In fact, it is a redundancy to speak of the church and of the gathering of the saved, because it is the same thing. Only the saved gather together as the Church. They don’t gather in the Church, they are the Church as they are together.
It is in daily life that every Christian will proclaim the Gospel of the Kingdom, in his life testimony and his words. The Christian is going to pray for the sick, expel demons, exercise his gifts and develop his talents and gifts for the Glory of God.
Every Christian is an ambassador of God, of the Kingdom of God, in every sphere of society where he works and lives, whether it is in politics, education, religion, business, media, and the arts or in the family.
More than 95% or what we call Jesus’ ministry was developed in the streets, houses, town centers, and in the work place.
More than 95% of what we recognize as the apostles ministry went on in the work place.
Even today all of Jesus’ disciples live 95% of their lives in the work place and so it is in the workplace there are the Kingdom’s transformation agents. The other 5% of the time is reserved for when they meet together as the church.
The generation and transfer of wealth through work is the way in which God expands His Kingdom.
The third concept that needs to be understood is that God’s plan for each of His children is that they invest in His Kingdom through the generation and transfer of wealth produced by their business and activities in the workplace.
"The wealth of the ungodly will be given to the just" (Proverbs 13:22). But it won’t fall from Heaven, nor will it be received by magically reciting “evangelical mantras” nor declarations, proclamations, decrees but by the force of the work of all who are saved, through intelligence and through wisdom. Work is adoration as much as the singing of hymns in the Assembly of God’s holy people.
From the construction of the tabernacle going on to the construction of the Temple of Solomon and to the reconstruction of the Temple of Jerusalem in the times of Ezra and Nehemiah and up unto the New Testament, God’s model for financing His work has been through the work place.
And it is Jesus’ disciples that understand this Truth that will disciple the most people into the Kingdom, since God uses them much more than He uses those that are considered “priests”.
In this way and throughout the whole world a “new church model” is coming about in the workplace, in schools and universities, in the cities and rural areas alike and in all spheres of society.
That is how a transformation is taking place in the structures of society and in nations throughout the earth until God “sends the Christ, who has been appointed for you – even Jesus - He must remain in Heaven until the times come for God to restore everything as He promised long ago through His holy prophets”. (Acts 3:20-22)
Notes:
This article was partly inspired by a speech given by Ed Silvoso.- www.harvestevan.org
Translated from the original in Brazilian to English by Mark Sittner –
Email: marksittner@gmail.com
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4/4 - The key to transformation: All of us are called to full-time ministry
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