tVB 58: 1 CHURCH WORK TRAINING: THE GREAT NEED OF GOD’S LEADERS

tVB 58: 1

CHURCH WORK TRAINING:

THE MINISTRY OF HELPS: THE GREAT NEED OF GOD’S LEADERS

SOME YEARS AGO, WE WERE OUT inviting churches to a Church Worker’s training workshop. According to one of my associates, when one pastor got the invitation he said, “This must be another new revelation. Which one is ministry of helps again?”

I guess answering this most basic question is a very good place to start, but let me also lay a foundation by first defining ‘ministry’. Ministry is service.

SO, WHAT IS THE MINISTRY OF HELPS?

Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually. And God has appointed these in the church: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, HELPS, administrations, varieties of tongues. 1 Cor 12:27-29 (emphasis mine)

The ministry of helps is God's system for facilitating the work of God on the earth through the Body of Christ, and specifically to provide AID, RELIEF and SUPPORT for those He has called.

HELPERS - THE GREAT NEED OF GOD'S LEADERS!

Johnny Mcmahon said, “Helps" ministry is very important and vital for the success of any ministry.” Not everyone will operate in leadership functions. A larger portion of church members will operate in support functions for the pastor.  The ministry or service or work of Helpers provides real and required functions for any work that God calls any man or woman to execute, especially in the local church, although the helps ministry also features prominently in the operations of Apostles, Prophets, Evangelists and Teachers.

In Numbers 11:13, when Moses found himself unable to handle the daily responsibility of caring for nation of Israel alone, The LORD told him, “Gather to Me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people and officers over them; bring them to the tabernacle of meeting, that they may stand there with you. Then I will come down and talk with you there. I will take of the Spirit that is upon you and will put the same upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with you, that you may not bear it yourself alone.” This was the enablement to put the Helps Ministry into action!

A minister once said, “Why should laymen and women always be helping the sent leader? Because God set it up that way! God did not set it up that I am the 'mighty mogul'. I'm not. We are all the same size. When we get to heaven, you in the ministry of helps will get the same reward that I'm going to get for being the ‘big’ preacher.”

There is a divine reason behind your membership in your home church. According to Johnny McMahon, “Some of us have not taken these types of ministries very seriously as those that make a real impact. Some of us have problems with equating the serving of tables with the healing of the sick that was going on in Acts 6. But had the apostles assumed the additional responsibility, there would have been a great hindrance and distraction in the move of God.”

DIVINELY POSITIONED AND EQUIPPED TO SUPPORT

Appointed leaders and church workers occupy a strategic position in God's plan for every local assembly. You may not look or feel so significant right now, but the truth is you are. And God has a special job for you! You do not have to be “called” into the five-fold ministry or become appointed as a leader before you begin helping your Pastor fulfil the divine assignment. If however you become appointed into leadership, then use your official platform and authority to better support your Pastor in fulfilling his calling.

I want you to know that God has already placed certain gifts within you to enable and empower you to be successful and effective in whatever duties you perform in support of your Pastor's God-given assignment.

This is God's design. Anyway you look at it, you are vital to the fulfilment of your Pastor's God-given vision!

(Culled from THE MINISTRY OF HELPS by Tope A. Banjo)

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