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This seems to me like this was the first organized church staff meeting in the bible. there was an issue with the congregation or the people that needed to be addressed and Jesus wasn't around to turn 5 into 5000 so the guys needed to get their heads together and figure out what they were going to do. They all decided that the right thing to do for the situation was to recruit some other people to do the Job.

This is important, because they weren't doing it because they couldn't do the job, they could have done it fine. They weren't trying to get out of work, they didn't have a problem with hard work. They weren't trying to say that they didn't care that much . . . they did care, that was their reasoning for saying that the people that were going to be in charge needed to be full of faith and wisdom.

They knew that their purpose, their function in the body of christ was the preach the word of God, that is what their spiritual gift was. Hospitality was not their function. This is why, in a modern day church, there are different departments running with different types of people in each one. Each person must try and use the spiritual gifts that God has blessed them with, in order to fulfill their kingdom function.