Layman's Job Description

· organize their own affairs (1 Cor. 11:33-34; 14:39-40; 16:2-3)
· discipline fallen members (1 Cor. 5:3-5; 6:1-6)
· warn the unruly (1Thess. 5:14)
· comfort the feeble (1 Thess. 5:14)
· support the weak ((1 Thess. 5:21)
· abound in the work of the Lord (1 Cor. 15:58)
· admonish one another (Rom. 5:14)
· teach one another (Col. 3:16)
· prophesy one by one (1Cor. 14:31)
· serve one another (Gal. 5:13)
· bear one another’s burdens (Gal. 6:2)
· care for one another (1 Cor. 12:25)
· love one another (Rom 13:8; 1 Thess. 4:9)
· be devoted to one another (Rom. 12:10)
· show kindness and compassion to one another (Eph. 4:32)
· edify one another (Rom. 14:19; 1 Thess. 5:11b)
· bear with one another (Eph. 4:2; Col. 3:13)
· exhort one another (Heb. 3:13; 10:25)
· incite one another to love and good works (Heb. 10:24)
· encourage one another (1 Pet. 4:9)
· pray for one another (Jas. 5:16)
· offer hospitality to one another (1 Pet. 4:9)
· fellowship with one another (1 John 1:7)
· confess sins to one another (Jas. 5:16)

If lay people are doing all of these things, why on Earth are we paying a pastor?