The Executive Committee of the Consistory at our church meets monthly to act for the whole consistory and deal mainly with administrative matters.  This frees the Elders and Deacons to concentrate on their pastoral and support ministries.  In some seasons, the church leaders are dealing with many HUGE issues, like a choice of denomination, a building project, a case of widespread sin in the membership. 

At such times, it is good for the ExComm to remember that even though the BIG matters are important, we need to be wise in the ministry of small things.  To that end, we opened our meeting by reading and briefly applying the following verses to our work.  Then we prayed through the agenda, praising God as the One who knows all things; asking for humble hearts; asking that we would do all things as unto Him; and being thankful that He knows what we are going through.

 Zechariah 4.8-10  Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying, “The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall also complete it. Then you will know that the LORD of hosts has sent me to you. For whoever has despised the day of small things shall rejoice, and shall see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel.

 Matthew 13.31-32    He put another parable before them, saying, “The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his field. It is the smallest of all seeds, but when it has grown it is larger than all the garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and make nests in its branches.”

 Proverbs 30.24-28

                    Four things on earth are small, but they are exceedingly wise:

                    the ants are a people not strong, yet they provide their food in the summer;

                    the rock badgers are a people not mighty, yet they make their homes in the cliffs;

                    the locusts have no king, yet all of them march in rank;

                    the lizard you can take in your hands, yet it is in kings’ palaces.

 Matthew 18.10 See that you do not despise one of these little ones. For I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.

 Colossians 3.16-17 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.