Got your comment on my blog about volunteering and I think you missed it completely or you didn’t read all of it. No where in the gospel does Jesus use language of “volunteer”; He only uses servant. Jesus wasn’t a “volunteer” and He doesn’t call His followers to be “volunteers.” He calls us to be “servants.” “Volunteer” is language that our culture has created that is rooted in the focus upon the person doing the act instead of the act itself. I would never insult a missionary by calling them a “volunteer”; I would never insult a person serving Jesus Christ at a church by calling them a “volunteer.” I would never insult you or your parents by calling the work you do for Jesus as “volunteer work.” No where in my blog did I say that people shouldn’t give there time willingly to Jesus; in fact, I said the opposite. I said that to give that time and call it “volunteering” is an insult to the gospel. I find it interesting that someone like yourself who claims to be a follower of Jesus would post a destructive comment on my blog instead of contacting me through email first. I’m here to build up the body; not tear it down. My prayer is that you, your parents, and any other person in this world who is a follower of Jesus Christ would never look at their time in serving Jesus as “volunteering” but that we would always view it as being a “servant of the living God.”

BTW, if you can find a place where Jesus speaks and uses the language of “volunteering” let me know…..to my knowledge its only the language of “serving”

Pastor P