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We've Got the Lord's Work to Do!

By Rod Anderson, CP Cartoonist
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 Let's try to guess which of these two men is doing more to expand the Kingdom of God.

We'll call the first guy Kevin. Kevin gets up every morning at 5:30 a.m. and gets ready for a long commute into his downtown office where he works in middle management in the banking industry. He works hard because he has a family to support: a wife, three kids and a dog.

Calvin is our second guy – "Pastor C," as the kids in youth group call him. Calvin's days working at an inner-city church are filled with mentoring young people, counseling them through their problems, and coming up with interesting ways to reach their hearts with the Word of God.

I think a lot of people would read those two short descriptions and automatically pick Calvin as the better "servant." I can see why – from what we read, Calvin's whole life is dedicated to his faith.
But think again.

As believers, we need to get past the mentality that the only way to serve God completely is to go into ministry.

Read more at http://www.christianpost.com/news/whos-the-better-christian-118365/

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