We often talk about how the church needs more people to serve.
Actually, there are plenty of people who will serve.
There is no shortage of people who will serve IF …
1. If everything parades according to their preference
2. If they get to do exactly what they want to do, precisely when they want to do it, and only with those whom they want to do it with.
3. If they are acknowledged and praised and thanked and fawned over adequately.
But what the church needs is people who will serve. No if. No condition. Just serve.
The church needs flexible, faithful members. Members who simply say “if it needs doing I’ll chip in and help do it.”
JB Philipps paraphrase of Romans 12:3-6
As your spiritual teacher I give this piece of advice to each one of you. Don’t cherish exaggerated ideas of yourself or your importance, but try to have a sane estimate of your capabilities by the light of the faith that God has given to you all. For just as you have many members in one physical body and those members differ in their functions, so we, though many in number, compose one body in Christ and are all members of one another. Through the grace of God we have different gifts.