Believer's job description

 

With the babble of confusion that currently exists in the Christian faith the question which all sincere and loyal believers should ask themselves, “Is there a job description or a stipulated code of conduct that is applicable to all believers? Or is everyone permitted to do as they please?  If under any circumstances there is a stipulated code or a job description for all believers, why aren’t all believers complying to it, since God is not the Author of confusion, and believers have been admonished saying, “There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God and Father of all, who  above all, and through all, and in you all” (Ephesians 4:4-6).

It is not the will of God that the church be so divided, in fact sectarianism is a sin and therefore the apostle Paul wrote; “Now I plead with you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and there be no divisions among you, but  you be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment” (1Corinthians 1:10).

It would be rather impossible to be of the same mind and judgment, if there were no job description or stipulated code of conduct to keep everyone joined together, and speaking the same thing. Therefore the problem for our present dilemma is the cause of those who have assumed or given the position and responsibility of authority to edify the church.

For we are told that; “He (God) Himself gave some be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting, but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head --- Christ ---from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love” (Ephesians 4: 11-16).

Those who have assumed or given the responsibility to edify the church have been admonished saying; “As each one has received a gift, minister it to one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. If anyone speaks, let him speak as the oracles of God. If anyone ministers, him do it as with the ability which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen”(1Peter 4: 10-11).

Obviously the reason why there is so much confusion and disagreement in the body of Christ-the church, it is because those who are speaking or teaching the word, are not doing it as the oracles of God, because, surely the Lord God does nothing, unless He reveals His secret to His servants the prophets (Amos 3:7).

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What therefore is the job description or stipulated code of conduct for the believer? The job description for the believer is as follows:-

To be continued

With brotherly love

Lucius Joseph