Embracing Action: Saying Yes to Faith and Service

I actually boo my team. I understand. I get it. I tell you that for this reason. Last year it came out when quarterback Dak Crescott, when he's not injured and playing, before he begins to play, he makes all his pre-snap reads and all the motion happens for the play and everything that's going to happen before the snap of the ball. He does all of that. And then right before he wants the ball to be snapped, he says, here we go. [00:34:54]

But that's what he would say. And what he was saying was, it's time to go. There's nothing else that needs to happen now. Nothing else needs to occur before this play goes into action. So he would say, here we go. It's time for action. So the title of my sermon today is, here we go. It's time for some action. [00:35:34]

Statistically, 20 % of the people that make up a church do 80 % of the work. That's, that's an average. Statistically across America, 20 % of those who make up the church do 80 % of the work. So if you have a church that has a hundred people that attend, 20 people are doing 80 % of what's going on. If you have a church of 200, do the math. [00:37:30]

Now all who believed were together and had all things in common and sold their possessions and goods and divided them among all as anyone had need. So continuing daily with one accord in the temple and breaking bread from house to house, they ate their food with gladness and simplicity of heart, praising God and having favor with all the people. [00:41:42]

See, all this led to more people accepting Christ, more people taking the step of obedience to him, more people saying yes because they got involved. More people came to know Christ and get involved. That's God's recipe. So how do we model this? How do we model this in 2025 as Faith Baptist Church? [00:43:33]

Has your life changed since you said yes to Jesus? Has it changed? Where has it changed? See, I look at Acts 2, and I think about all those people who have accepted Christ. Their life changed because it says they started meeting together. They met house to house. They broke bread together. They prayed together. They saw the needs in each other's lives. [00:44:50]

See, if you know Jesus as Savior, then you need to be a part of the family here at Faith Baptist Church. Now, hear me on this. Not a visiting relative. But Sunday's fun are Sundays. An integral part involved. Helping make the meal. Helping set up. Helping do the dishes. Don't you love that family member that just shows up at family events and doesn't do anything? [00:45:11]

Now, the difference in faith group and community group and discipleship group is this. These are small groups of just men or just women that meet, okay? Just men or just women, and they get together on a weekly basis to study the Bible. That's the focus, right? These groups go a little bit deeper into the Bible and to each other's lives. [00:49:34]

The more people you reach the more people you need to serve and walk alongside each other that makes sense doesn't it then I mean if you're a smaller church you don't have as many things I mean you just don't and so you know as we grow as where you reach more people as God blesses as we celebrate what God is doing has done is doing it wants to do if we're gonna keep going forward we need more people serving. [00:55:56]

Hebrews 6 10 says this for god is not unjust to forget your work and labor of love which you have shown towards his name and that you have ministered to the saints and do minister where are you serving where are you ministering to kids students adults do you need to say yes to hebrews 6 10 what about colossians 3 and whatever you do do it heartedly as to the lord and not to men. [00:59:20]

Can you welcome someone glad you're here today you can do something maybe you're further down the road and you can teach a class or you can teach a group or you can be involved in kids men developing fundamental years of kids that many of them never hear about jesus until they come here maybe in student ministry maybe you love students see i i could live with students kids not my thing. [01:02:20]

It's time to be a part of a community a biblical community it's time to say yes in serving so in the way of an invitation today it's going to be a little different i'm going to ask you again god's moving in your life and you know you need to say yes to biblical community or you need to say yes to serving you need to say yes to serving you need to say yes to serving. [01:04:55]