Offer, Opposition, Oppresion, and Opportunity: The call of God to his Servants

The offer from God to be his servant and serve in his Kingdom. God is a gentle god who calls his ministers personally into the ministry, priesthood, Offices of the apostle, prophets, evangelist, pastors, and teachers. John 15:12-17 says, “12 This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends. 14 You are My friends if you do whatever I command you. 15 No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you. 16 You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you. 17 These things I command you, that you love one another.