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Who should be hired for positions in the church?
Do we as a Christian organization have a responsibility to employee
members from our own congregation for positions in our church rather than advertise
outside of our church? That's providing we can find someone that has the qualities and
skills required within our own church.
I Corinthians 12:4-27 makes it clear that God
places people in local churches to meet the needs of that local church. “Now there
are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. And there are differences of
administrations, but the same Lord. And there are diversities of operations, but it is the
same God which worketh all in all. But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every
man to profit withal. For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the
word of knowledge by the same Spirit; To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the
gifts of healing by the same Spirit; To another the working of miracles; to another
prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to
another the interpretation of tongues: But all these worketh that one and the selfsame
Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will. For as the body is one, and hath many
members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.
For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or
Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one
Spirit. For the body is not one member, but many. If the foot shall say, Because I am not
the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? And if the ear shall say,
Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? If the
whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing,
where were the smelling? But now hath God set the members every one of them in the
body, as it hath pleased him. And if they were all one member, where were the body?
But now are they many members, yet but one body. And the eye cannot say unto the
hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you. Nay,
much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary: And
those members of the body, which we think to be less honourable, upon these we
bestow more abundant honour; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness.
For our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the body together, having
given more abundant honour to that part which lacked: That there should be no
schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another.
And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured,
all the members rejoice with it. Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in
particular.”
