Rick DuBose, Mel Surface Church That Works

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When authority rises from the people, the enabling power for ministry goes no higher than their heads. When authority flows from the Head of the Church through the offices He gave, it brings His power, all power in Heaven and earth, to bear on human needs. The church that works wins its own children, reaches its neighbors, blesses its community, and makes God known to its generation, and then next, around the world. More than a building and more, even, than a body of believers, the church is a body of Christian workers. When the people falter in ministry, the church fails in its mission. The Church cannot work if the people who are called to lead are forced to follow or if those called to follow are trying to lead.