Why You Wouldn’t Want Jesus As Your Pastor

 

He’s lazy.

At least you’d say He is.

Do you remember the story of the storm arising while Jesus and the disciples were in a ship crossing the sea?

Where were the disciples when the storm arose? On deck.

Where was Jesus? In the bottom of the boat asleep. The Bible even says He was asleep on a pillow.

Mark 4:38: And he was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow: and they awake him, and say unto him, Master, carest thou not that we perish?

Jesus is sleeping while His disciples are on deck sailing to the other side, in a storm no less.

Many Christians have this idea that everyone else must be serving at the same time, in the same manner, in the same place and for the same duration as them. If not, they must be lazy.

The reality is that the work of God in the local church is quite diverse. People have different schedules, different spiritual gifts and abilities.

If the whole church were a hand, then where were the seeing?

There will come a time when you will be busy serving God while others are sleeping.

There will also be times when they are serving and you are sleeping.

A good rule of thumb is to find out what God has for you to do, do it and ignore what everyone else is or isn’t doing.

Let God keep score. He’s a lot better at it than we are.