Different Responsibilities for Different Christians
God gave each of us a specific purpose as Christians. We’re not all supposed to be preachers, or all of us teachers. We each have a specific task we are to perform.
Paul teaches this in Romans 12:3-8. He teaches that God has given us different amounts of grace, and according to that grace, different gifts. He lists prophecy, ministry, teaching, exhorting, ruling, and showing mercy as gifts and tasks Christians have.
We are supposed to use our gifts as a unity. Elsewhere in the Bible, Paul uses the illustration of a body. We each have a specific task to perform, and if we don’t all do our task, the whole body suffers. We can’t all be rulers or all pastors, because then we wouldn’t have people who do ministry or exhort people.
Not only are we supposed to do our task, we are also supposed to not think ourselves better than other Christians because of our task or gift. We should think ourselves the same as everyone else. As soon as we start thinking we’re more important, or better than everyone else, it’s far easier for us to fall. Plus, nobody likes someone who’s prideful or arrogant, it just causes more disunity rather than unity.
We each have a gift and a task, if we all do our tasks and use our gifts, and work as a united body, we will be able to better accomplish God’s will. But, if there is no unity, the body of the church will start to fall apart.
