I love how our church provides a variety of ways in which you can serve! You could do coffee, greet, usher, help with kids, or several other things. I also love how, over the past few years, so many have stepped up to volunteer. The church is not only a wonderful place for us to come and receive, but it’s also a place where we can use our gifts and talents to serve Jesus. I Corinthians 12:27 says, “Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it.” This passage goes on to say that each of our unique gifts and talents make up the body of Christ and everyone’s role is valuable. But it doesn’t stop there. In Matthew 9:37 Jesus says, “the harvest is plentiful but the workers are few.” The harvest isn’t neatly tucked away inside the walls of the church. Instead it’s in our community, our apartment complexes, on our college campus, on the golf course, and on our sports fields. If our work is only within the church, we miss the heart of God completely. God not only wants us serving at our church but also working the harvest field. The hard truth is, if we stop sending workers out into the harvest, the church will dwindle, and we won’t have a church to invite them to. Lord, we want to walk in your perfect will. Help us to find a place to serve at our church. Also, show us ways we can serve and show the love of Christ to those in our community that don’t know you and who haven’t found a church home yet. Give us boldness. Help guide and direct us. In Jesus name, amen.
When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.
Matthew 9:36-38