Answering the Call: Serving with Humility and Stewardship
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### Quotes for Outreach
1. "Friends, God's on the move at our church, which is why we were able to start another location. But when any church starts a new location, it always creates a shortage at both the sending location and the new one. This is normal, but when such growth creates such a need, it's a wonderful opportunity for God's people to step up to the plate, to be used by him, to make an eternal difference in the lives of others. So I'm inviting you today to step into the destiny that God has for you, which is this his destiny for you is that you might serve one another." [35:28]
2. "We cannot just sit idly by and not communicate the present need. It has to be communicated for a number of reasons, and one of the big ones is this. If we don't address the need, we will burn out the existing volunteers, and we, the leadership of this church, just love our volunteers too much to allow that to happen. You see, under normal circumstances, during times where we haven't just launched a new location, hey, people, serve, let's say, one to two times a month, which we think is very, very reasonable and sustainable." [03:35]
3. "Here's the principle. When we serve, we do so on God's behalf. Friends, if God were here physically, then he would share the sermon with you himself. And how awesome would that be? But here's the deal. He is not here. He's not here physically. So here I am. I apologize. Okay. Sharing the sermon with you on God's behalf. This is why Peter says, I'm supposed to speak the very words God would speak if he were here. Peter says that because I'm ministering to you on God's behalf." [22:22]
4. "In order to beef up the number of volunteers at all of our locations, today we're gonna look at one of the many one another's in scripture. You see, when we read the New Testament, we just start seeing all these different one another's. As we read the New Testament, what we find out very quickly is that disciples of Jesus, we are to love one another. We are to honor one another. We're to live in humility with one another. We're to instruct one another. We're to care for one another. We're to comfort one another. We're to bear with one another. We're to be kind to one another. We're to submit to one another. We're to teach and admonish one another. We're to encourage one another. We're to build one another up. We're to seek to do good to one another. We're to exhort one another. We're to stir one another to love, and good works." [06:37]
5. "The Reality. If we're gonna step into our calling to serve, then first, we have to understand a certain biblical reality. And it's a reality that the apostle Peter points out to us in the first part of verse 10, where he writes this. God has given each of you a gift. Can we say that out loud together? All locations, let's say it out loud. God has given. Each of you a gift from his great variety of spiritual gifts. Now listen, church, the word gift here means ability. It means that God has given each of us, every single one of us, the ability to do something well." [09:59]
### Quotes for Members
1. "Some of you, you say, I'm already serving Mike. What do I? I do today. And I would say, well, it depends if you're in the camp of the people who have been serving seven weeks in a row and then are getting called in even on the one week you're scheduled to be off. Do nothing. That's the application for you. Do nothing. You are already doing more than enough, but others of you are serving and you're not in that camp. Maybe you're serving once a month. Well, could I ask that just for a short season? Maybe you would volunteer to not just serve once a month. Maybe you could go twice a month." [37:29]
2. "If you don't use your God-given ability to serve others, it's bad stewardship. As the apostle Peter puts it in our text, we're to use our gifts as good stewards of God's varied grace. Now, if you're new to church, maybe you're not familiar with this concept of stewardship, but here's the deal. The Bible teaches that everything belongs to God and that you and I are simply stewards of that which God has blessed us with. So he's given us time. He's given us talents. He's given us treasure. Next week, as we return to our study in Matthew, we're actually going to see this more in depth, but God gives us these things. And then he expects us to steward what we've been given really well." [17:31]
3. "The Reality. If we're gonna step into our calling to serve, then first, we have to understand a certain biblical reality. And it's a reality that the apostle Peter points out to us in the first part of verse 10, where he writes this. God has given each of you a gift. Can we say that out loud together? All locations, let's say it out loud. God has given. Each of you a gift from his great variety of spiritual gifts. Now listen, church, the word gift here means ability. It means that God has given each of us, every single one of us, the ability to do something well. As the apostle Paul put it in 1 Corinthians 12, verse 7, a spiritual gift is given to each of us. Paul goes on. He goes on to say in verse 11, that God, the Holy Spirit, he apportions to each one individually as he wills." [09:59]
4. "So friends, the result of identifying our gift and then using it is that God is glorified. And it's appropriate that we would use our gift to glorify God because of what Peter also says in verse 11, which is this. We should use our gift to glorify God because to him belong glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen. So friends, when we use our gifts, the gifts that God has given each of us, God is glorified because ultimately it results in us being a blessing to the other members of the body of Christ." [26:53]
5. "So friends know what we have here. It's not just specific instructions for how to use two specific gifts. Peter here is giving us instructions on how to use any gift we've been given. From this verse, we take away two timeless principles about serving. Two timeless principles. We can apply to serving. Here they are. First, when he says, if you have the gift of speaking, then speak as though God himself were speaking through you. When he says that, here's what he's pointing out. Here's what he's saying." [21:44]
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1. "Friends, God's on the move at our church, which is why we were able to start another location. But when any church starts a new location, it always creates a shortage at both the sending location and the new one. This is normal, but when such growth creates such a need, it's a wonderful opportunity for God's people to step up to the plate, to be used by him, to make an eternal difference in the lives of others. So I'm inviting you today to step into the destiny that God has for you, which is this his destiny for you is that you might serve one another." [35:28]
2. "We cannot just sit idly by and not communicate the present need. It has to be communicated for a number of reasons, and one of the big ones is this. If we don't address the need, we will burn out the existing volunteers, and we, the leadership of this church, just love our volunteers too much to allow that to happen. You see, under normal circumstances, during times where we haven't just launched a new location, hey, people, serve, let's say, one to two times a month, which we think is very, very reasonable and sustainable." [03:35]
3. "Here's the principle. When we serve, we do so on God's behalf. Friends, if God were here physically, then he would share the sermon with you himself. And how awesome would that be? But here's the deal. He is not here. He's not here physically. So here I am. I apologize. Okay. Sharing the sermon with you on God's behalf. This is why Peter says, I'm supposed to speak the very words God would speak if he were here. Peter says that because I'm ministering to you on God's behalf." [22:22]
4. "In order to beef up the number of volunteers at all of our locations, today we're gonna look at one of the many one another's in scripture. You see, when we read the New Testament, we just start seeing all these different one another's. As we read the New Testament, what we find out very quickly is that disciples of Jesus, we are to love one another. We are to honor one another. We're to live in humility with one another. We're to instruct one another. We're to care for one another. We're to comfort one another. We're to bear with one another. We're to be kind to one another. We're to submit to one another. We're to teach and admonish one another. We're to encourage one another. We're to build one another up. We're to seek to do good to one another. We're to exhort one another. We're to stir one another to love, and good works." [06:37]
5. "The Reality. If we're gonna step into our calling to serve, then first, we have to understand a certain biblical reality. And it's a reality that the apostle Peter points out to us in the first part of verse 10, where he writes this. God has given each of you a gift. Can we say that out loud together? All locations, let's say it out loud. God has given. Each of you a gift from his great variety of spiritual gifts. Now listen, church, the word gift here means ability. It means that God has given each of us, every single one of us, the ability to do something well." [09:59]
### Quotes for Members
1. "Some of you, you say, I'm already serving Mike. What do I? I do today. And I would say, well, it depends if you're in the camp of the people who have been serving seven weeks in a row and then are getting called in even on the one week you're scheduled to be off. Do nothing. That's the application for you. Do nothing. You are already doing more than enough, but others of you are serving and you're not in that camp. Maybe you're serving once a month. Well, could I ask that just for a short season? Maybe you would volunteer to not just serve once a month. Maybe you could go twice a month." [37:29]
2. "If you don't use your God-given ability to serve others, it's bad stewardship. As the apostle Peter puts it in our text, we're to use our gifts as good stewards of God's varied grace. Now, if you're new to church, maybe you're not familiar with this concept of stewardship, but here's the deal. The Bible teaches that everything belongs to God and that you and I are simply stewards of that which God has blessed us with. So he's given us time. He's given us talents. He's given us treasure. Next week, as we return to our study in Matthew, we're actually going to see this more in depth, but God gives us these things. And then he expects us to steward what we've been given really well." [17:31]
3. "The Reality. If we're gonna step into our calling to serve, then first, we have to understand a certain biblical reality. And it's a reality that the apostle Peter points out to us in the first part of verse 10, where he writes this. God has given each of you a gift. Can we say that out loud together? All locations, let's say it out loud. God has given. Each of you a gift from his great variety of spiritual gifts. Now listen, church, the word gift here means ability. It means that God has given each of us, every single one of us, the ability to do something well. As the apostle Paul put it in 1 Corinthians 12, verse 7, a spiritual gift is given to each of us. Paul goes on. He goes on to say in verse 11, that God, the Holy Spirit, he apportions to each one individually as he wills." [09:59]
4. "So friends, the result of identifying our gift and then using it is that God is glorified. And it's appropriate that we would use our gift to glorify God because of what Peter also says in verse 11, which is this. We should use our gift to glorify God because to him belong glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen. So friends, when we use our gifts, the gifts that God has given each of us, God is glorified because ultimately it results in us being a blessing to the other members of the body of Christ." [26:53]
5. "So friends know what we have here. It's not just specific instructions for how to use two specific gifts. Peter here is giving us instructions on how to use any gift we've been given. From this verse, we take away two timeless principles about serving. Two timeless principles. We can apply to serving. Here they are. First, when he says, if you have the gift of speaking, then speak as though God himself were speaking through you. When he says that, here's what he's pointing out. Here's what he's saying." [21:44]
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