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I don't remember the year. It was somewhere back in the 70s. My parents, my mom is here.

Wave your hand. My parents pastored here at Bethel, 1968 until I think 1982.

And during that time, I was on staff for five of those years 73 to 78 and I think it was

somewhere around 1974 somewhere in that area my dad began to teach out of the book of

Ezekiel and he talked about all believers being priests under the Lord. And of course,

many of us want to think of priests. We think of, you know, the white little collar. It's not

that kind of a priesthood. It's a priesthood of the believer that has three basic areas of ministry. And this is, this is Christianity

101 for us. This goes way back into our roots, but it'll set the stage for what I want to do today.

He began to talk to us about the three areas of ministry that every believer has. We have, first

of all, our ministry to the Lord himself. He is not an egotist in need of our

encouragement. He's not an egotist in the need of our flattery. He's the almighty God, and we become

transformed as we worship. We always become like the one we worship. And so this ministry to the

Lord is first and most important, And second to that is our love

for the people of God, for the church, not organizations, but for people. And third is our ministry to the

world. It's a right and true list of priorities. But if we're not careful, it would cause us to misdiagnose

or miss the conviction of the Lord regarding our third ministry.

It's not that it's least and important.

In fact, let's look at it this way.

In worship, I will worship God throughout eternity.

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