{"id":45952,"date":"2022-10-01T02:07:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T07:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/a-job-or-a-ministry-which-is-it-bible-study\/"},"modified":"2022-10-01T02:07:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T07:07:00","slug":"a-job-or-a-ministry-which-is-it-bible-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/a-job-or-a-ministry-which-is-it-bible-study\/","title":{"rendered":"A Job Or A Ministry \u2014 Which Is It? &#8211; Bible study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some members have a job in the church, other members involve themselves in a ministry. What&#8217;s the difference?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If we are doing it just because no one else will, it&#8217;s a job. If we are doing it to serve the Lord, it&#8217;s a ministry.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>If we quit because somebody criticized us, it was a job. If we keep on serving, it&#8217;s a ministry.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>If we do it only as long as it does not interfere with our other  activities, it&#8217;s a job. If we are committed to staying with it even when  it means letting go of other things, it&#8217;s a ministry.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>If we quit because no one praised us or thanked us, it was a job. If  we stay with it even though nobody recognizes our efforts, it is a  ministry.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>It&#8217;s difficult to get excited about a job. It&#8217;s almost impossible not to be excited about a ministry.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>If our concern is success, it&#8217;s a job. If our concern is faithfullness, it&#8217;s a ministry.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>An average church is filled with people doing jobs. A great and growing church is filled with people involved in ministry.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Brethren, think about it! If we are not already involved, let&#8217;s get  involved in ministry for the Lord and &#8220;Serve the Lord with gladness:  come before his presence with singing&#8221; (Psalm 100:2).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some members have a job in the church, other members involve themselves in a ministry. What&#8217;s the difference? If we are doing it just because no one else will, it&#8217;s a job. If we are doing it to serve the Lord, it&#8217;s a ministry. If we quit because somebody criticized us, it was a job. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/a-job-or-a-ministry-which-is-it-bible-study\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Job Or A Ministry \u2014 Which Is It? &#8211; Bible study&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}