To Be A Part Of Something Bigger Than Yourself | The Time Is Now | Pastor Adam Bishop

``last for all eternity. This is where the church separates itself. The church is the only thing in this lifetime that we can actually make that statement about. You see the church is not a building, institution, it's not an organization. The church is a people. Jesus was the first to start the church. And when these first followers of his began to gather, and and then they began to spread and share the good news of the gospel [00:31:27] (27 seconds)  #ChurchIsFamily

Recognize what it really means to be a part of God's family. And it's a pretty remarkable thing. God's got a really big family. God's family is all over the world. And when God's family gathers in smaller gatherings, like we're gathered here at New Hope Church as one of Jesus' churches. [00:32:34] (18 seconds)  #GlobalChurchFamily

We see someone else do something well, like, man, wish I could do that instead of just pulling back a second, go, what what is it that I can actually do? And then what's your personality? The p, what's your personality? Are you an extrovert? Are you an introvert? I mean, if you don't know, ask your friends. If you're an introvert, you may not have a lot. I don't know. I bet it's just to find out. Okay? How am I wired? Are you a perfectionist? [00:38:55] (20 seconds)  #KnowYourWiring

We see someone else do something well, like, man, wish I could do that instead of just pulling back a second, go, what what is it that I can actually do? And then what's your personality? The p, what's your personality? Are you an extrovert? Are you an introvert? I mean, if you don't know, ask your friends. If you're an introvert, you may not have a lot. I don't know. I bet it's just to find out. Okay? How am I wired? Are you a perfectionist? [00:38:55] (20 seconds)  #FindYourRole

Are you kind of like a go with the flow? Are are you spontaneous or do you like to plan things out? Do you think we should go to a party or go change the world? That's a personality. Okay? That's kinda wired into you. It's not going to change as much as you try to change that in your spouse. Listen to me, you can't change it. Alright? It's how God wired them. Typically, two spouses marry one another, different personalities. It's so God can build the fruit of patience in your life. Okay? That's how that works. Alright? What's your personality? [00:39:15] (26 seconds)  #GodWiredPersonalities

God never wastes the hurt. God never wastes the hurt. Some of you have disqualified yourself from serving in a church because of something that you did in the past. Our God is a God who steps in and offers redemption in every situation. God can redeem the worst parts of your story for his good. [00:39:49] (20 seconds)  #RedeemTheHurt

God never wastes the hurt. God never wastes the hurt. Some of you have disqualified yourself from serving in a church because of something that you did in the past. Our God is a God who steps in and offers redemption in every situation. God can redeem the worst parts of your story for his good. [00:39:49] (20 seconds)  #PastDoesntDisqualify

if we want be a part of something bigger than ourselves, we got to make a choice. Choose to be a contributor rather than a consumer. This is just one of those stake in the ground choices inside a local church. I'm gonna be a contributor and not just a consumer. That there should be a point in your spiritual journey where you make this decision. And the way that we contribute is through our time, talent, and treasure. Time, talent, treasure. Now back in November, we did a whole series talking about our treasure. We called it a pacesetters teaching series. Today is really focused more on the time and the talent. Are you gonna choose to be a contributor with your time? That's a big choice. [00:41:42] (39 seconds)  #BeAContributor

People who are available to serve are not less busy than you. I hate to break it to you. Everybody's busy, and everybody has the same amount of time in every single day. Some people just make a choice. I'm not gonna let my time be consumed by things that won't last. I'm gonna intentionally choose to invest my time in things that will last for all of eternity, and availability is one of the ways that happens. Second thing that pastor Rick said, real servants pay attention to needs and look for ways to meet them. Did you know that when you recognize a need, that might be the holy spirit's way of leading you to meet that need? Since we're all uniquely gifted and wired, that means we have different vantage points. We have different perspectives. You may see something someone else doesn't see. And inside the local church, that's super helpful. If you see a need, all of a sudden that might be God's way of guiding you towards starting to meet that need. All right. Next, [00:43:34] (54 seconds)  #GiftedToServe

People who are available to serve are not less busy than you. I hate to break it to you. Everybody's busy, and everybody has the same amount of time in every single day. Some people just make a choice. I'm not gonna let my time be consumed by things that won't last. I'm gonna intentionally choose to invest my time in things that will last for all of eternity, and availability is one of the ways that happens. Second thing that pastor Rick said, real servants pay attention to needs and look for ways to meet them. Did you know that when you recognize a need, that might be the holy spirit's way of leading you to meet that need? Since we're all uniquely gifted and wired, that means we have different vantage points. We have different perspectives. You may see something someone else doesn't see. And inside the local church, that's super helpful. If you see a need, all of a sudden that might be God's way of guiding you towards starting to meet that need. All right. Next, [00:43:34] (54 seconds)  #SeeAndServe

There are no menial task in the kingdom of God. Every now and then I'll have a conversation with a college student or maybe someone in their early twenties and they feel called to ministry and they they they say something like this, hey, I wanna do what you do. And I'm like, what do mean? Well, like I wanna get up and preach every single week at a church like New Hope. Like how how can I do that? And what I try to help them understand is that for fifteen years in ministry, I didn't do this. [00:45:49] (27 seconds)  #NoMenialTasks

There are no menial task in the kingdom of God. Every now and then I'll have a conversation with a college student or maybe someone in their early twenties and they feel called to ministry and they they they say something like this, hey, I wanna do what you do. And I'm like, what do mean? Well, like I wanna get up and preach every single week at a church like New Hope. Like how how can I do that? And what I try to help them understand is that for fifteen years in ministry, I didn't do this. [00:45:49] (27 seconds)  #HumbleService

It's like we don't ever wanna have the the attitude, well well, that's not on my job description, or or that's below my position. No. No. No. We will do every task with equal dedication. Doesn't matter what your title is, number your position is, responsibility. Why? Because that's a reflection of our heart. [00:47:18] (16 seconds)  #ChooseAvailability

This is about our spiritual growth discipleship and and so we're gonna do everything we can with equal dedication. That's what we we feel called to model the way and we feel that that's part of the challenge that we put out if you're gonna serve here in Newho. Next, real servants are faithful, trustworthy, and dependable. Hey, can we recapture the word dependable? [00:47:34] (21 seconds)  #BeDependable

This is about our spiritual growth discipleship and and so we're gonna do everything we can with equal dedication. That's what we we feel called to model the way and we feel that that's part of the challenge that we put out if you're gonna serve here in Newho. Next, real servants are faithful, trustworthy, and dependable. Hey, can we recapture the word dependable? [00:47:34] (21 seconds)  #ServeWithDedication

I like this. They're not serving and looking over their shoulder to see if anybody's noticing. I love that about our church. I love that other people who serve We we got all of our volunteers together, this past fall and here on a Sunday night, had a big celebration. Every single team, production team, next gen team, parking team, greeting team, coffee team, all the teams. And, every pastor or staff ministry leader gave out an award that night to someone on their team, and the name of the award was the unsung hero. [00:50:05] (29 seconds)  #CelebrateVolunteers

I like this. They're not serving and looking over their shoulder to see if anybody's noticing. I love that about our church. I love that other people who serve We we got all of our volunteers together, this past fall and here on a Sunday night, had a big celebration. Every single team, production team, next gen team, parking team, greeting team, coffee team, all the teams. And, every pastor or staff ministry leader gave out an award that night to someone on their team, and the name of the award was the unsung hero. [00:50:05] (29 seconds)  #UnsungVolunteers

you wanna be a part of something bigger than yourself. Get clarity about your placement, priority, and progress in serving. I can't help myself. I'm a pastor, so sometimes these points, know, I get three words, they all start with p, it makes me happier. I get clarity about your placement, priority, and progress in serving. Now this is me kinda popping the hood for a second and and really showing you like behind the scenes. We work really hard at this. Like we put hours and hours and hours into this because we don't take lightly what I'm talking about today. We're asking you to give of your time. [00:50:58] (36 seconds)  #PlacementPriorityProgress

Yes, it's something that will last for all of eternity but your time is precious and once it's spent, don't get it back. So we don't want to waste your time and we want to make sure we're super clear on the front end and so this isn't something that we put in print or like distribute or whatever. It's like an internal thing that we use as a staff team. And we call it a ministry ladder because we're talking about serving a ministry. [00:51:34] (22 seconds)  #MinistryLadder

It's a ladder and we're very creative. So that is a ministry ladder. And what you can see is there's different rungs on this ladder. And you can take any volunteer team in our church and you could kinda lay that this ladder out and you could begin to see how this would work. So I'll just use the greet team. So we have folks that are members on the greet team. We have some individuals who lead different greet teams. Coaches who are over greet teams. [00:51:56] (26 seconds)  #LeadAndShapeYouth