Dr Paul Allen

Is everything we do at church called Ministry? 1.  Let’s see where “ministry’ appears in the Old Testament .  We’ll start by looking up the occurrences of the word in the major English translations on  www.Biblegateway.com : ESV  – 3x – Numbers   4:47 ; 2 Chron . 7:6, 2 Chron.  8:14 NIV  – 2x – 1 Chron. 25:1, 6 NASB  – 2x – 1 Chron. 24:3, 19 NKJV  – 5x – Ex. 31:10, 35:19, 39:1, 39:41; 2 Chron. 7:6 KJV  – 4x – Num.  4:12 ,  4:47 ; 2 Chron. 7:6, Hosea  12:10 . I know there’s other translations, but this will more than suffice our needs since “ministry” doesn’t appear hundreds of times in the OT. 2.  Let’s check our references at  www.blueletterbible.org  and discover the Hebrew term in each verse: Ex. 31:10 –  Kahan Ex. 35:19 –  Kahan Ex. 39:1 –  Serad  &  Sharath Ex. 39:41 - Kahan Num.  4:12  -a derivitive of  Sharath Num.  4:47  –  Abodah 1 Chron. 24:3 –  Abodah 1 Chron 24:19 –  Abodah 1 Chron. 25:1 –  Abodah 1 Chron. 25:6 –  Abodah 2 Chron. 7:6 –  Yad