R.C. Sproul

I said, do you know how few people I've met in my life who have the gift of giving like you do?

And I said, and you go in the pastor, we're going to have to raise your support instead of seeing what you have been able to do to help finance the ministry of the gospel all over the nation.

Well, he decided not to go into the ministry and he continued.

He gets his ministry by actively involved in finding how to allocate resources in the most effective way to advance the cause of Christ.

That's ministry.

And Paul recognizes that here.

And without those people, ministry doesn't get done.

It's that simple.

Without the administrators, ministry is in chaos.

And as I said, these gifts are not exhaustive.

There are more things that go on in the life of the church than just these gifts that Paul enumerates in Romans.

And again, we can extend this beyond the church into the world where everybody has a role to play.

Now in conclusion, one of the key points that we seem to have missed in the Bible

that Paul iterates here and reiterates in the Corinthian correspondence, the New Testament teaches that every believer not only is indwelt by the Holy Ghost, but is gifted by the Holy Ghost for service.

Every Christian has some gift given to them by the Holy Ghost.

And we are accountable to Christ for how we exercise our gifts.

This is what Paul is saying here.

If you have the gift of teaching, what?

Whoever has that gift, let him teach.

Whoever has the gift of preaching, let him preach.