There was an elder once who said to me, very seriously: "Don't use the word 'illegal' in our Church!" I think we minuted that, too. I had been speaking about legal requirements which we might have been skirting. But the law itself is very definite. Even in a country like South Africa, where there is a lot of slack, the law can bite without mercy. In short, if you have a title: minister, trustee, treasurer -- even Sunday School teacher or member -- and so on -- you had better know what that means. And if you have a task, you had better know what that task requires. OBSERVATION: This should not discourage people from serving in the Church. However they should inform themselves, and understand, too, that they have a role which sits apart, as it were, from their "personhood".
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