PDF Title: What Does it Matter Who the Instrument Is?
Author: Ron Christian
Summary#
What Does it Matter Who the Instrument Is? is a reflective Christian journal entry in which Ron Christian maintains that believers should serve God with humility, self-forgetfulness, and freedom from comparison, competition, jealousy, and the desire for personal recognition. The writing asserts that God chooses different instruments for different assignments, whether those assignments are public and widely noticed or quiet and ordinary. Ron Christian contends that Christians should rejoice when God uses others effectively in prayer, evangelism, preaching, teaching, writing, music, leadership, or hidden acts of service, rather than coveting their gifts or accomplishments. The entry also proposes that believers should begin to reflect the spirit of heaven on earth by appreciating the gifts of fellow Christians as though those gifts were their own. Its central message is that Christ is the Master, each believer is one member of His Body, and faithful service should aim at Christ’s glory and the edification of God’s people rather than personal credit.