Ministers unto the Lord

"Have Aaron your brother brought to you from among the Israelites, along with his sons Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, so they may serve me as priests." Exodus 28:1 Many times we look at ministers of the Gospel as ministers of a church but they are first ministers unto the Lord. It is not a career that they have chosen but they have been chosen for the ministry by the Lord. All too often churches look upon their ministers as their employees and therefore they are answerable to them. Ministers are accountable to their churches but they are answerable to their God. Two errors can happen. First, churches think that they can dictate to their ministers because they are their employees. Second, ministers think that they are not answerable to their churches as they are answerable only to God.