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Most people think that pastors are leaders, but if you look at Ephesians Chapter Four,
pastors are equippers of the saints. Pastors, teachers, evangelists . . . their job is to
equip the saints, the whole body of Christ, so that the whole body gets stronger. Literally
the body language, we’re ligaments, we connect people. And so partly using Biblical metaphors
we realize there’s really no such thing in church language that’s clergy and laity.
Laos means people. There are the people of God who are called to be the agent of transformation
under one leader, Jesus. Well, that means in every square inch where we have influence,
every kitchen table, every school room, every classroom, every courtroom, every place where
we are, if we can be functioning as the body of Christ, trying to help transformation happen,
then we’re all leaders. It’s just as pervasive as the notion as a group of lower classed
people who received the Holy Spirit on Pentecost, who became the agent of world transformation
in the Roman Empire.