Developing and using your gifts is an act of good stewardship and of worship . You discover your gifts both through ministry and discovering your ministry by identifying your gifts. Membership and maturity are prerequisites to ministry. Therefore we require class attendance and commitment to these two areas before serving through Lakeview Church. About the Body of Christ God intends for ministry to be performed through the context of the local church.
Membership includes a commitment to ministry.
The Holy Spirit has provided our church body with all the spiritually-gifted people needed to do everything He wants done. Our task is to discover, enlist, train, and support these people in ministry. The church is to operate on the basis of spiritual gifts, rather than elected offices. We do not elect people to ministries . Therefore we streamline the structure in order to maximize ministry and minimize maintenance.