All Christians
are soldiers of the Cross
Scarcely anything has been
more injurious to the kingdom of Christ than the distinction
between clergy and laity. No such distinction was ever laid down
by the Spirit of God.
"You are a royal priesthood."
"He has made us unto our God kings and priests."
In the Church of God there is no special priesthood because all
are priests.
We have made among ourselves a distinction between ministers and
others. But you are all to minister! There are many ministries
of one form and another; and though God gives to His Church
apostles, teachers, pastors, evangelists, and the like, yet not
by way of setting up a professional caste of men, who are to do
the work for God while others sit still.
All Christians are soldiers of the
Cross and all on active duty!
Every converted man is to teach what he knows.
All those who have drunk of the Living Water are to become
fountains out of which shall
flow rivers of Living Water. All are to proclaim the Word and no
one is exempted by another form of service.
It is thought nowadays that a man must not try to proclaim the
Gospel unless he has had
a good education. But there is nothing whatever in the whole
compass of Scripture to excuse any mouth from speaking for Jesus
when the heart is really acquainted with His salvation.
We are all called to make Jesus known if we know Him.
We must come back to the pattern of the original church.
Every Christian must be a herald of the Cross.
If you do not tell the Gospel, you are leaving your fellow men
to perish. Yonder is the wreck and you are not sending out a
life boat! Yonder are souls starving and you give them no bread!
If we felt that blessed amazement which we ought to feel when we
think of Free Grace and dying love, silence would be impossible.
- Charles H. Spurgeon, All at
it (Sermon)
