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Originally Posted by BobVigneault  (The reformed response is to preach obedience as motivated by gratitude for justification.) |
Do you agree that this is the correct response.
I'm not a pastor/elder, but with my imagination I picture myself sitting in my church study, with aspirations of doing great things for the Lord with the church he'd entrusted me with, but I have a manpower problem. I can't count on all the members to be at all the services, and getting people to help out with much of the mundane things that need to be done is like pulling teeth. I preach sermons (again, with my imagination) that should stir them to help out out of gratitude for what their savior has done, but volunteers don't come forward. A few do, and they're stuck carrying more of the load than is necessary (and eventually get burned out).
So there I am, sitting in my office, wondering what it is that's competing for their time to just spend an hour or so helping out. Do they even want to help out? If not, why not?