WE ARE ALL EQUAL IN THE SIGHT OF GOD

In The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, we have no paid clergy. Instead, we have a lay ministry wherein our Church members are expected to serve in various positions when called upon by those in authority to do so.  There is a unique equality among members. Because God is no respecter of persons, we are all equally loved by Him. No member of the Church is esteemed by the Lord as more or less than any other.

To whom will ye liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be like?

(Isaiah 46:5)

Boyd K. Packer, President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, tells us that everything that is done in the Church—the leading, the teaching, the calling, the ordaining, the praying, the singing, the preparation of the sacrament, the counseling, and everything else—is done by ordinary members, the “weak things of the world.”

"We see in the other Christian churches their struggle to fill the need for clergy," President Packer continues, "We do not have that problem. Once the gospel is preached and the Church is organized, there is an inexhaustible supply of faithful brothers and sisters who have that testimony and are willing to answer the call to serve. They commit themselves to the work of the Lord and live the standards required of them."

Sister Lindsay is equal to other missionaries

In the service of the Lord, it is not where we serve but how. As full time missionaries for the Church, we do not aspire to leadership positions. We have been assigned by President Belliston who presides over The Maryland Baltimore Mission to "bloom where we are planted." As you can see in the photograph above, Sister Lindsay is equal to the other missionaries, including these young elders with whom we serve in Baltimore.