Every 3 years, my church will have to elect new office bearers. Sometime, it is so unreal because the church current session will come out with the list of the next generations for your to vote. It is only if you vote them out or otherwise they are in. If there is much democratic process then this must be way out and totally unacceptable to most. Yet the church will try to hard sell their candidates with poster and illustration their CV. You pay money for them to be voted in. I thought is so so much as to who is the office bearer but what motivate one to be in the list .... so far I see most of them just not really very forward looking and forecoming to serve the cause of the Lord Jesus Christ. Why would you serve if you just want to be around and do as little as possible? Does'nt office work tell us that this is something we refuse to do and so we must not bring what we don't want to do in circular work to the church? If a pastor or elders is not for evangelism -why be part of the the mission outreach committee? The list go on. Let God deal with what is in the heart. For me, I will look at what the people are doing and vote according to the conscience. God will decide who should do the work that He has planned. We pray that no one play play with this isssues of being office bearer in the church.
Tan Ming Song written at :2:41 PM
