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Volunteering Should Be Voluntary
Within the last few years, I’ve noticed a deeply unsettling perspective among the Christian community about volunteering. It’s not really new, I suppose. But it’s getting tired, and it’s time to be addressed. As Christians, everything we do either works toward spreading the gospel, or works against spreading the gospel. We are called to expand the worldwide church. This is where our spiritual gifts come in to help us to do just that. There are those who know how to use their gifts to best help expand the church, and others are still figuring out how. And that’s fine. But what isn’t fine—and this is where the unsettling perspective comes in—is…