Any volunteers?
I’ve been looking for a word and I can’t find it. More specifically, I’ve been looking for a word in the Bible and I can’t find it. Yet it’s a common word. And it’s a word often used to describe members of a church. I’ve used it myself, quite recently, and many of you will have used it too. But, as far as I can tell, it’s nowhere to be found in the Bible. The word is ‘volunteer’.
James Torrens
Voluntary organisation
Isn’t that striking? We often say that ‘the church is a voluntary organisation’ or ‘the church is made up of volunteers’, usually meaning we can’t force people to do what we think they should be doing! But I cannot find any reference in the Bible where the people of God are called ‘volunteers’.
