Responsibilities of a children's worker

The Children’s Worker Has Two Responsibilities - Mr. Sam Doherty  

The ministry of the children’s worker is therefore to teach and apply the Word of God to the children.  

But there are two kinds of children. Therefore while he will teach the truths of the Word of God to all the children, he willwant to apply these truths in two different ways so as to meet the needs of both groups of children.  

The children’s worker is a fisherman.

While teaching he is “fishing” for children who are not saved. His first role is that of an evangelist and he wants to apply his teaching to unsaved children so as to encourage and help them to trust Jesus Christ as their Lord and Saviour.   

The Lord Jesus called Simon Peter to be such a fisherman: “Then He said to them, “Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men” (Matthew 4 v19).  

Peter’s first call was to FISH:

And what a fisherman he was to become! His greatest-ever catch was to take place on the Day of Pentecost (Acts 2 v41) when he “caught” 3,000 souls.  

The first call of the Lord Jesus to everyone who works with children is to EVANGELIZE them, to FISH them, and as the Holy Spirit works in their hearts to CATCH them and

LEAD them to the Saviour.  

 

The children’s worker is a shepherd.

Through his teaching he wants to feed children who are saved. He wants to apply his teaching to saved children, to help them to grow spiritually.   

The Lord Jesus also called Peter three years later to feed and to be a shepherd:

“Feed My lambs” (John 21 v15).

And what a shepherd he was to become—through his prayer ministry (Acts 4 v23-31), through his spoken ministry of teaching and encouragement (Acts 2 v42; Acts 4 v32-35;Acts 5 v42; Acts 15 v7-11) through his ministry of correction and chastisement (Acts 5 v1-11), and through his writing ministry as contained in his two epistles!  

Similarly, every children’s worker has been called to a shepherding or follow-up ministry—to pray for, to help, to encourage and, if necessary, to correct boys and girls who are saved.

Every children’s worker has therefore two responsibilities— to FISH and to FEED. He is called to work among children by HOOK and by CROOK