What Is the Nature of Your Service?
What Is the Nature of Your Service?
Many serve within the field of Church education for long years,
yet they do not have a spiritual service.
All their work is supervising the club, or the library, or the order, or caring for attendance and absence records, or distributing pictures and prizes, or distributing classes. Or their service is supervising financial matters in the service, or offering donations to the poor… or various administrative matters.
In all this, they are completely far from the “service of the word.”
They have no class, no disciples, no lectures they deliver, and no meditations.
They may not even attend as listeners in the youth meeting or the servants’ meeting, because at the same time they are busy with their administrative work.
Thus their lives become dry and wither, while they are within the sphere of service!
Perhaps, because of frequent giving and taking in the field of administrative work, they fall into many spiritual errors, such as nervousness, loud voice, or the sharp commanding tone. They may clash with many people and imagine that they are in a presidential position because of their administration!
Sunday Schools are aware of their mistakes, yet they do not dispense with their administrative services!!
Either because of their administrative skill despite the mistakes, or because of their experience and endurance of such work, or because there is no one to replace them in these responsibilities that some servants may apologize for undertaking, or because of the problems they may cause if they leave their administrative service!!
So what is the solution to this problem?
The solution undoubtedly has many aspects, among which we mention:
- Training in spiritual conduct within these responsibilities, with spiritual guidance to avoid mistakes.
Service is meant to develop the spiritual life of the servant, and it must not be a cause of his spiritual lukewarmness or his errors.
The service leaders must observe what happens to the servants in terms of development in their spiritual behavior, just as they observe their dealings with people during their service, and ensure the spiritual atmosphere they live in. - It is necessary that the servant have a spiritual work in the service alongside his administrative responsibility.
- These responsibilities can be rotational. They should not be a permanent task for one servant, but rather he serves in them for a specific period and then leaves them.
- It is necessary to ensure that every servant attends the spiritual meetings as a listener, regardless of his seniority in service. Listening grants him humility in his life and refreshes his knowledge and spirituality.
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