The Ultimate Mandate by Laconia D. Dunn

Today’s guest blogger is Laconia D. Dunn. As a minister of the Word of God, Laconia reaches people through real-life Bible application.  She has ministered to a wide array of groups including singles, young adults, women, youth, ministry staff personnel, church leaders, and a host of others.

She is the Founder and CEO of Heart Changers Int’l Ministries, based in Grand Prairie, TX.  It is a ministry centrally focused on the love of God.  Its mission is to minister to the demands of people by addressing the spiritual need locally, remotely, and internationally. 

Laconia Dunn is the co-owner of Smith & Dunn, LLC, a publishing company that highlights her writing talents, including professional editing, proofreading, content management, and preparation of resumes, bios and business letters. 

Having been afforded the opportunity to teach through writing, she currently acts as Assistant Editor for Epitome Magazine; a locally published Christian magazine who lives by their brand, “not gossip, just gospel.”

In 2011, Laconia Dunn released her first book, “From Honeymoon to Hell” a Christian fiction novel that focuses on the realities of marriage through the lens of both the believer and non-believer alike. She is currently working on her next project scheduled for release midsummer 2014. 

A native Texan, Laconia Dunn graduated from the University of North Texas in 1992, with a Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice.  In May 2004, she  graduated from an intense 2 year MIT (Ministers in Training) program that focused on advanced Bible concepts, relationships with God’s people, effective hermeneutics, homiletics, theology, and divinity, to name a few.  After which, she received her license to preach.  She has current plans to pursue a Master’s Degree in Theology.  She is married to Tony Dunn.  Together, they have two children, Tristan and Treniti. 

There is a mandate that rings throughout the kingdom of God. It has no face, no color, no gender. It rings as loud in the church as it does in the community. It has no boundaries and doesn’t relegate itself inside the walls of any one church, organization, or group. It can’t be contained within any city, state or country. It has no regard of sickness, whether personal or collective. Its voice is sturdy; its motive is clear; its mission is plain. There can be no question about what it should or should not accomplish. The Bible has made it plain from the very beginning.

This mandate has been talked about from anyone that calls themself a preacher, teacher, minister, or devotee to God and/or his word. Its popularity, while widespread, and audible wherever a believer calls himself in attendance, isn’t as rich as it should be. The truth is, its clarion call is too quiet to reach even the smallest ears of the unbeliever. Yet the Bible says, “He that has an ear, let him hear (Rev. 2:7).”

What is the biggest mandate in the church?

The call to serve.

The need for servants far surpasses what most of us could even imagine. The Bible declares, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few (Matthew 9:37).”

The call to handle God’s word in any capacity is the call to serve. (Mary & Martha)

Serving is a natural tendency for women, but why should the church be any different? We serve In our homes, on the job, with family and friends. But the statistics don’t change.  80% of the people do 20% of the work in the church.

Women, we need to make a difference in our community, and a powerful way to do it is to serve in our congregations. Pray about how you can give back. Serving bears eternal rewards.

“Give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use it will be measured back to you” (Luke 6:38).