Servants or Reverend Serafin Alarcon Galatians 1: 11-24 11 But I certify you, brethren, the gospel preached by me is not after man, 12 For I neither received nor learned of any man, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ. When one performs a task entrusted to us, and this in turn is cause for suspicion by some, the first thing we say or ask us is, “With what authority do that? Question us as Christ did with the Pharisees of his time and also with the Apostle Paul. I remember the time that men expelling demons in the name of Christ and because they were not disciples were rebuked by Christ … “Do not forbid them … I answer the teacher.
How to forget the opposition found John the Baptist and even the very young David when he told Saul a l face the giant. And is that too many reasons that infuse the enemy when someone is genuine and true instrument of God. Paul in the previous letter detailing the revelation that he has received regarding the gospel, has come on from the very person of Christ. I think, should not today be the same? Of course, if one has called to work in the work one must be prepared, one must learn and try in good faith testimony is truthful advertising … But what makes a man a servant of God? “The seminar, positions in the church, formal education, eloquence, and so on.? No.
Brothers meditate and examine the scriptures and discover what happened to those first men who were called to the priesthood. You had to be coat, had to be descended from a priestly line … What happened? Prostituted himself the priesthood, like today. So God raised up judges and prophets, them out of giving people the same frown of authority and power. Today the call to be pastor has been professionalized to the point that universities have students doing master’s degrees in divinity and theology teachers and scholars simply not called … A training unconsciously creates wrong expectations of the gospel and anti biblical times. Of course not all are well, praise God for that. Golden Father, that these men and women who claim to have a call to pastor, to be missionaries, evangelists and even priests have in mind that larger commitment to Christ and service to others. That the gospel is not a profession, let alone a business. The gospel and true religion according to James is the service and we must never forget. Sometimes I wonder if the ineffectiveness that have some ministries is precisely by people who just wants a comfortable life and loose, forgetting his vow of total dedication to the needy. Christ demands of us and even to lay people, to give everything to the poor, to give our gifts and talents for the sole purpose of enhancing the work of the church on earth. I conclude by saying that it is vital if you go to seminary or not, if you lay leader, or if you graduated from college with many titles … The important thing is that we are not reluctant to let ourselves be led by the only person who really can do so supernatural Person of Christ and the Holy Spirit. So do not ye be called Reverend, for the only total reverence worthy of God.