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Laity
by Xander Coleman

1979 was the official Salvation Army Year of the Layman. Which is interesting, because we don't believe in the concept of laity. We acknowledge the priesthood of all believers, which means every Christian man or woman or boy or girl has a call to administer God to the world.

When I was in Melfort, Saskatchewan I found a pamphlet from the 1979 Year of the Layman, written by Lieutenant E. Palmer. It likens the Army to a hockey team - the coach can be the best coach in the world but if he doesn't have a committed and hard-working team he will never win the Grey Cup.

It's a good analogy

I liken the Army to an army. An officer could be a tactical genius, a great leader and an awesome fighter but all that won't help him very much if he doesn't have a hearty, committed and disciplined group of soldiers under his command.

Soldier, you are not a parishioner. You're not a congregation member. You are a SOLDIER with a war to fight. Your officers are in place to lead and command you!

Commissioner Samuel Logan Brengle describes an ideal SA outfit of soldiers thus:
If their officer could not feed them, they were able to find their own soul-food from the Bible. If nobody blessed them, they rose in their splendid spiritual manhood and womanhood and blessed others, even those sent to lead them. 'I will guarantee,' said their divisional commander, 'that I can send the worst kind of backslidden officer to the corps at W., and in three months the soldiers will have prayed for him and helped him and loved him and gotten him so blessed that he we be on fire for God and souls.

Jesus, may we be true soldiers of the cross.

 

 

 

   

 

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