Why You and Every Single Church Member is Essential to the Church

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God has placed the members of His church where He sees fit, but every single member of the church is essential.

Jesus Builds His Church

God has placed the members of His church where He sees fit, but every single member of the church is essential. When Jesus began to build His church on the Apostles and Prophets (Heb 11:1-2), with Himself being the Chief Cornerstone (Eph 2:19-22), He needed diversity. He didn’t need twenty pastors and five lay members. He needed pastors, teachers, evangelists, elders and deacons to equip the church, but He needed more. He needed other members to be joined together and make a functional body…the Body of Christ, with Jesus as the Head of the Church. We didn’t decide which member goes where in the Bible. That is Jesus’ choice. It is the wisdom and sovereignty of God at work in His calling and placing those whom He has chosen to build and sustain His church. It was not man who built this church, otherwise, it would…