Sunday we celebrated Laity Sunday in our church. I as the pastor got to sit out in the pews and worship, while one of our lay speakers led worship and delivered God’s word. It was a joyous time, an important day.
Laity Sunday is not a day celebrated by just one church; it’s a universal celebration by many, and it is all about lay people. If you don’t know what a “lay person” is, it’s a person who is a baptized member of a church, a believer in Jesus, but not an ordained minister of the Gospel. But every lay person is indeed a minister.
See, whenever someone is baptized into the Christian faith, that person is made a representative of Jesus in and for the world. That person is given a life-long job to do, a vocation to participate in God’s salvation plan for the world.
On Laity Sunday each year, we lift up and thank God for the ministry of all lay people. But our lifting up and thanking God for the work and ministry of lay people is certainly not limited to one day a year. Today, I give thanks for the ministry of all ministers, ordained and not. Today, let us all commit ourselves to representing Jesus in the world, to serving him with our lives, to offering his saving love to others.
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