Good morning, good morning, good morning, good morning.

Good morning, everyone, and welcome back to another Mornings with the Masters.

We're devote ourselves to the Lord daily with you.

We are picking back up with New Morning mercies, I'm just going to take from here.

It says this, God is not satisfied with informing you about the work of his kingdom.

He transforms you to participate in the work of his kingdom.

God has not revealed his truth to you so that you can be the audience, a viewer of his work of redemption.

God has called all his children to participate in the work of his kingdom. Everyone who has been brought into a relation with God through Jesus Christ

has also been drafted into the ministry of the Lord Jesus Christ. He really does mean to employ

all his children into his work of

redemption. Yes, you read that right. All his children. The total involvement paradigm is his

normal plan for the church. Now, those biblical passages that say that the body of Christ grows as every part does its part,

Ephesians 4 versus 11 through 16, or that every one of God's children should be prepared to

teach and admonish, Colossians 3 versus 12 through 17, seem very radical to us, but they were not

radical in the context in which they were given.

Paul doesn't introduce them by announcing that radical material is coming. They are an explanation of God's normal

plan for his people and his church. They appear radical to us because we have drifted so far

from God's norm for his church. Many, many Christians' church attendance is the spiritual addition of going to a concert.

Ooh, whoa, whoa.

They regularly go to experience the religious performance of ministry professionals,

but they have little commitment to the health of the church or to its work in the world. Their relationship

to the church is self-focused, aka here's the kind of church I want to attend, or it's passive.

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