Saturday 6 Oktober - die hart van vrywillige diens

Remunerated Employment VS Volunteering

This is a BIG one for our discipleship process to mature sons & daughters.... 

Today, does God want of you to volunteer to work in/for His Kingdom or does He recruit you based on a remuneration employment system?

Romans 6:16 -18
¹⁶Don’t you realize that you can choose your own master? ... The one to whom you offer yourself—he will take you and be your master, and you will be his slave. ... ¹⁸And now you are free from your old master, sin; and you have become slaves to your new master, righteousness.


The Cambridge Dictionaries Online defines Volunteering as:
"to offer to do something that you do not have to do, often without having been asked to do it and/or without expecting payment" / "to give information without being asked"

Remunerated

1. To pay (a person) a suitable equivalent in return for goods provided, services rendered, or losses incurred; recompense.

2. To compensate for; make payment for: remunerated his efforts.

Employment

1. a. The act of employing. b. The state of being employed.

2. The work in which one is engaged; occupation.

3. An activity to which one devotes time.

 

We know we have been bought for a price and no longer belong to ourselves but to Him who settled our debt.  What do you think God wants in return from this covenant He extends to you?

 

Jesus gave us an indication when He qualified our giving/volunteering by our heart's attitude...

 

Hebrews 6:9 - 12

9 My friends, we are talking this way. But we are sure that you are doing those really good things that people do when they are being saved. ¹⁰ God is always fair. He will remember how you helped his people in the past and how you are still helping them. You belong to God, and he won’t forget the love you have shown his people. ¹¹ We wish that each of you would always be eager to show how strong and lasting your hope really is. ¹² Then you would never be lazy. You would be following the example of those who had faith and were patient until God kept his promise to them.

So then, what is at the heart of this great truth?