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A church officer is your neighbor next door, the clerk at the store, your druggist who deciphers the hieroglyphics of your doctor. It is not necessary to be a saint and scholar to hold the office. This leader is your neighbor, your brother, maybe even you.
Seated in a small room with others at a time of meeting, there is a blend of the conservative, liberal or sometimes somewhere in between.
If sincere prayer has taken place it has become obvious the necessary balance this dialing heaven provides. A good church officer weighs the merits of his minister with the presence of the Lord close at hand and gives him patient understanding and the minister gives back the same…and there is a special holy blessing to the ongoing event.
There are disagreements and sometimes they are handled well and sometimes not well at all. Sometimes the church grows despite rather than because of the actions of its leaders.
A church officer has so much to deal with, he or she struggles with straggling funds, arbitrates the problems of the choir, glories at the spirit of the churches youth, deals with the uplifting efforts of evangelism and then with the prosaic problems of parking and plumbing.
Sometimes there is a wondering about capabilities. Training has sometimes been meager. With humble sincerity or blatant pride the responsibility of each voting time is approached. Always there is the challenging reality that in business there is always the struggle between the cut-throat and Christianity.
The workaday world, it seems, too often has little time for ethics. It is why the need for patella persuasion, a time of prayer, must always be near.
What is a church officer? An elevated living hope who needs the strength of humility, the power of faith and wisdom tempered by common sense. And, of course, the presence of a good and guiding God.
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