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THE PROTESTANT ETHIC AND HOW IT CHANGED THE WORLD {PART 3}

from: 04 . 11 . 17
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EVERYONE IS A FULL TIME MINSTER.

One major teaching of the Protestants that we the Protestants of today must go back to is the fact that the European Protestants did not emphasize fivefold ministry the way we do today. Today our teaching on the fivefold ministry only tends to view only those called to the fivefold ministry as those called to be ministers, while the rest of the congregation is just viewed as laity who just go to secular jobs.

The way the early Protestants taught on the other hand is that everybody is a full time minister in their various places of work. They went to the extent of saying, your job, profession, occupation is your calling. So you’re actually fulfilling your calling by going to work and giving your best. Hence, the Protestants go to work not just for the money, their biggest motivation for work is service to God and man. Not the interest to gain profit or make money.

“And whatever you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord and not to men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ.” Colossians 3:23-24

The Protestant believe in the higher power through the truth they derive from the word of God. They got to know the truth and that truth set them free and they took the truth to the society and set their whole generation free.

Just like today, the Protestants and their teachings had to fight with the prevalent order of the day which taught that:

1. Work is only for making profit.

2. Make money with minimum effort

3. The culture of the day viewed work as a burden to be avoided.

4. The secular world of the time taught that you should do no more than what was enough for good living.

As we can see from these points, the sinful nature of man is the same in every generation. Man naturally moves towards entropy. We are driven towards the carnal, mundane and the mediocre. We need a higher power, force and truth to deliver us from this entropic movement to self-destruction and pull us higher to greater values.

When work is viewed only as a source of economic gain the centrality of work becomes self-indulgence, selfishness and egocentrism. There is a great advantage when work and economic gain is viewed from the perspective of moral and spiritual significance.

To be continued tomorrow…

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, CHURCH AND NATION
By Pastor Sunday Adelaja.



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