Understanding Primary Roles
Each of us has been individually tailored by a purposeful Creator to reflect His image in the way we work and relate. We have been handcrafted, so to speak, imprinted with particular abilities and ways of approaching life. We are drawn, as if by an unseen magnet, to certain ways of operating in the world.
Part of our created individuality concerns the ways in which we were designed to function in a group. We call this our primary roles. These are the handful of specific roles that describe our best contribution to an overall effort.
Over the course of a lifetime, we may be butchers and bakers and candlestick makers, and though we fulfill a little of many roles, there is a particular way in which God created us to function best. The more we understand what our primary roles are and ought to be, the more effective will be our contribution to anything we undertake.
When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, or the son of man that you care for him? You made him a little lower than the heavenly beings, and crowned him with glory and honor.
(Psalm 8:3-5, NIV)
