Every Christian Has A Calling
Illustration★★Peter, James, John, Paul and the other apostles— our Lord Himself— each was a layman. So, as Dr. John Oliver Nelson of the Federal Council of Churches said, “God calls everyone to be a minister, whatever torm that ministry may take in his or her life work. . . .
Church vocations are ]iist one sort ot vocation to which God calls young people. He has a call, a summons, a plan, for evcrv young person that’s born.” Said Martin Luther, “A shoemaker, a smith, a peasant, anyone, has the office and work ot his trade and yet, at the same time, are all consecrated bishops and priests.” “Seeing that we [all| have this ministry” let us look to our calling, magnify it.
And discharge it with fidelity ami zeal.
The point
Peter, Paul, and the apostles were laymen too, reminding every believer that God calls all vocations to ministry, not the clergy alone.