Bishop Emmanuel Kodwo Orleans-Lindsay

Understanding How Lay Ministry Is A Type of Helps Ministry

1 Corinthians 12:28 (KjV)

²⁸ And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, HELPS, governments, diversities of tongues.

 

 

The Ideal Lay Worker Pt.1

Romans 11:13-14 (KJV)

For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office:

If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them. 

 

What Happens When There Are No Laymen pt.3

Matthew 16:24 (KJV)

Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

What Happens When There Are No Laymen pt.2

Luke 16:10-12 (KJV)

¹⁰ He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.
¹¹ If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?
¹² And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man's, who shall give you that which is your own?

Seven Things you Must Know About The Lay Ministry

Acts 18:1-3 (KJV)
After these things Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth;
² And found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla; (because that Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome:) and came unto them.
³ And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought: for by their occupation they were tentmakers.

What Happens When There Are No Laymen

2 Samuel 6:7-11 (KJV)

⁷ And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Uzzah; and God smote him there for his error; and there he died by the ark of God.
⁸ And David was displeased, because the Lord had made a breach upon Uzzah: and he called the name of the place Perezuzzah to this day.
⁹ And David was afraid of the Lord that day, and said, How shall the ark of the Lord come to me?
¹⁰ So David would not remove the ark of the Lord unto him into the city of David: but David carried it aside into the house of Obededom the Gittite.
¹¹ And the ark of the Lord continued in the house of Obededom the Gittite three months: and the Lord blessed Obededom, and all his household.

Laikos Introduction

Hebrews 6:10 (KJV)
¹⁰ For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.

Implications of Galatians 6:6

Galatians 6:6-8 (KJV)
 ⁶ Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things. ⁷ Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. ⁸ For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.

God's expectation of a Born Again Christian

1 Peter 2:11 KJV

11 Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

Who is the Holy Spirit

John 14:26 KJV

26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.