Rejection can make it difficult to say yes

"My goal has always been to have the whole church active in ministry"

Rejection that is not appropriately dealt with can skew the way you think and act. It can also make it very difficult to say yes. Moses response to God, after seeing signs and wonders, was to say “O Lord, please send someone else to do it.”

My goal has always been to have the whole church active in ministry. God has works of service for everyone. If we are saying “please let someone else do it”, for the wrong reason like Moses, we are hindering our personal growth and calling as well as not being a fully participating member of the body of Christ.

Jesus wanted to prepare his apostles to deal in an appropriate way with rejection. He told them “If anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words, shake the dust off your feet when you leave that home or town. I tell you the truth; it will be more bearable for Sodom and Gomorrah on the Day of Judgment than for that town.”

Moses let rejection fester away on the inside for years. Jesus wanted the apostles to learn how to leave it behind where it belonged. Therefore wiping dust off your feet is an external way of dealing with rejection, instead of internalizing it. It was not they who were being rejected but God. It would be God who eventually they would be answerable to.

Rejection can make it difficult to say yes

Rejection that is not appropriately dealt with can skew the way you think and act. It can also make it very difficult to say yes. Moses response to God, after seeing signs and wonders, was to say “O Lord, please send someone else to do it.”