Your Role Matters

 What positions in the local church require the Holy Spirit?

You'll likely answer this question by saying preachers, elders, Sunday School teachers, worship leaders, deacons and the like.  Or you'll say, "all of them" but you won't know exactly why other than the answer sounds right.

But what about the facilities team, the kitchen volunteers, the audio-visual team leader, the children's crafts coordinators and the like?  Do those sorts of positions within your church really require the empowering of the Holy Spirit?  Do those types of roles within the functioning of the church really need spiritual influence or are they not on the spiritual plain?

Let me refer you to a story that will clear up this question.  It's from the book of Exodus when God had told Moses how worship in the community of Israel was to be conducted.

"Then Moses said to the Israelites, "See, the LORD has chosen Bezalel son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, and He has filled him with the Spirit of God, with skill, ability and knowledge of all kinds of crafts... to make artistic designs for work in gold, silver and bronze, to cut and set stones, to work in wood and to engage in all kinds of artistic craftsmanship.  And He has given both him and Oholiab son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, the ability to teach others.  He has filled them with skill to do all kinds of work as craftsmen, designers, embroiderers in blue, purple and scarlet yarn and fine linen and weavers... all of them master craftsmen and designers." Exodus 35:30-35

God filled this man, Bezalel, with the Holy Spirit so he had the ability to lead the facilities team, as it were, so he could lead the interior decorating team, as it were, so he could teach crafts to others.  The Holy Spirit that moved within Bezalel and Oholiab was the same that empowered Moses.  Don't miss that.

We must avoid the temptation to create categories of spirit and non-spiritual within the workings of the church.  Given that the Church and your local church is a spiritual house, the work within it is also spiritual... from the work of the pastor to the facilities team leader.

Don't believe Satan's lies that the manifestation of skills from the Holy Spirit in you are useless or undignified.  Serve using the skills God has blessed you to have.  Serve in the role the Holy Spirit empowers you to serve knowing that you are serving the God who made you the way you are intentionally.  

Show proper honor to all who serve in the house of God today.