My Consuming Thought of the Day

Everything we do is worship. Everything we do should point others to God's Glory. I'm sometimes overwhelmed when I think about how we've missed teaching this to folks at church. They gotta know this! The engineer, the home school mom, the student, the factory worker, the CEO, the secretary - they HAVE to know that their work is worship. What they do day in and day out, how they conduct themselves, their work ethic - is a daily act of worship to their creator.

Have we over-programmed church? Have we taught that ministry mostly (or only) happens AT church...or WITH a church group? Have we taught that worship is only what happens on a Sunday morning? That it is simply singing songs? Obviously corporate gathering, and singing as one to our Maker, is highly important. But it doesn't end there, does it?

Have we elevated the church staff position so highly that most believers feel that only the staffers are to do the ministering? (Especially in the South?)

I'm just so caught up in this right now. (Mostly personal conviction I suppose.) We gotta teach that everyone is a minister (yes, some are called to equip) and that worship and ministry go far beyond the normal routine of church.