Administration is a Gift from God for the Church

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Administration is a gift from God for the church. It’s also a gift that looks odd at first glance. As people in this world we’ve flawed, we’re highly likely to feel annoyance about administration because it can cramp our style. However, it’s obvious our urge for freedom doesn’t always bring good results.

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What’s good to remember is that all of the gifts we’ve discussed are somehow elements of God’s character. In this case, administration links all the way back to Genesis 1. God introduces himself by turning nothing into time and physical reality, and chaos into order. Then, he made people, and provided them employment taking care of where they lived.

Since we, his kids, don’t need to create the universe to have a place to be, we get to imitate him by creating other things. They’re all smaller things, sure. But like the way some of us have our mother’s ears and our father’s eyebrows, we’re equipped to do different things. Abel herded sheep, Cain farmed.

Administration is a gift from God for the church. If our clarity of mind hasn’t yet been utterly destroyed by the devil’s lies, we realize we thrive when administration helps us work with others to see measurable progress in bringing our creative ideas closer to reality.

Another way administration is a gift from God to the church is in the ways its proper use protects everyone from overwork and burnout. Taking their cue from the advice Moses received from his father-in-law, when the disciples learned of an unmet need, they wisely chose a group of deacons to handle duties unrelated to preaching and teaching. They also carried this procedure over for churches planted elsewhere.

Working with authoritative humility and prayer-derived wisdom, administration, a gift from God for the church, also defuses conflicts. Perhaps one day, the church will need less of that. We’ll be going into greater detail about the different levels of administration in future posts.


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7 Comments

  1. Ruth DeMaat

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    Good thoughts, Heidi. Administration, done right, prevents overburdened worshippers, disorganization, and even disillusion with the Church. Non-committed “Christians” look at the Church with a sharp eye for problems, using any excuse not to belong. Instead, they claim to love God without “the hassle” of commitment to the body of believers. God commands us to BE the Church. Good administration helps so much!

    • Heidi Kortman

      Reply

      Thank you, Ruth for being willing to come by, to read, to comment, and to share. My words don’t seem like much in the howling and complaining that’s going up.

  2. Kathleen Friesen

    Reply

    Wise words, Heidi. I’d never thought of administration in this light.

    • Heidi Kortman

      Reply

      Administration isn’t a topic my denomination’s pastors talk about very often, that I can remember. I had to extrapolate from the dictionary what it might mean.

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