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Intro
Good morning Church family.
It is great to be back in the house of the Lord.
We are continuing our current series called REVITALIZATION.
Revitalize - permeate with new life and vitality
The church is to permeate with new life and vitality.
Jesus came to bring life and it is through the church that we can continue to bring life to not only our church family, but to our community as well.
There are FIVE FUNCTIONS of the church that we are going to look at during the course of this series that if we put into practice, we will revitalize our church.
Connect
Grow
Serve
Go
Worship
In Acts chapter two we are given a model of how the church is to function.
When the church functions as it was originally designed to function, lives will be changed and the kingdom of God will begin to grow.
Last week we looked at the function of growing (discipleship).
Today I want to look at the next step in those connections which is to SERVE.
God Calls us to Serve
God calls every believer and gives every believer gifts and abilities to be used for the Kingdom.
1 Corinthians 12:4–6 (NLT)
4 There are different kinds of spiritual gifts, but the same Spirit is the source of them all.
5 There are different kinds of service, but we serve the same Lord.
6 God works in different ways, but it is the same God who does the work in all of us.
When the those who are part of the body of Christ shift from a consumer mentality to being contributors, we will naturally fulfill this new and biblical function of service.
When we serve, not only does it help meet the needs within the faith community, but also outside of the four walls of the church.
When we serve inside, it will overflow to the outside where you will find yourself serving those you don’t even know.
For my wife and I, we do not believe in just using the gifts and abilities the Lord has given me to just pastor this local faith community.
We also want to pastor the community we live in.
We want to serve the community we live in.
This is why we are involved in our community.
The reason we do this?
Because we love our community just as much as we love our faith community and we desire for God to bless our community.
Jeremiah 29:7 (NLT)
7 And work for the peace and prosperity of the city where I sent you into exile.
Pray to the Lord for it, for its welfare will determine your welfare.”
As long as the community we live in prospers, so will the church.
This is why I speak blessing and life over the city of Corning.
I hear so much cursing over our community.
Those that follow Christ should take no part in this.
We as the church should continuously pour blessing and life into the city of Corning.
It is the right thing to do.
It is the biblical thing to do.
It Takes a Team
The other day in the office Carly and Victoria were painting in their office.
Before they began I asked Victoria if she would like some coffee.
As we were walking to the kitchen we were discussing the progress of the food pantry and how we have so many in our church to help out with projects like the food pantry.
She made the statement “it is nice to have so many in the church who can do different things.”
This is how the church is to function.
The church is to be filled with believers who serve and serve together as a TEAM.
“Teamwork makes the dream work.” - John C. Maxwell
How true this is.
While Maxwell said this back in 2002, this concept has been around for thousands of years.
In fact, we see it in the Old Testament.
Moses had a wise father in-law named Jethro, who gave him some great advice when it came to ministering to the Children of Israel.
Notice, this is after they left Egypt, the place of bondage and slavery.
Exodus 18:13–18 (NASB95)
13 It came about the next day that Moses sat to judge the people, and the people stood about Moses from the morning until the evening.
14 Now when Moses’ father-in-law saw all that he was doing for the people, he said, “What is this thing that you are doing for the people?
Why do you alone sit as judge and all the people stand about you from morning until evening?”
15 Moses said to his father-in-law, “Because the people come to me to inquire of God.
16 “When they have a dispute, it comes to me, and I judge between a man and his neighbor and make known the statutes of God and His laws.”
17 Moses’ father-in-law said to him, “The thing that you are doing is not good.
18 “You will surely wear out, both yourself and these people who are with you, for the task is too heavy for you; you cannot do it alone.
Moses would literally sit and listen to each and every person everyday.
According to Exodus 12:37 there were about six hundred thousand men.
That did not include the women and children.
If each man is married with an average of 5 children, this brings the entire population of Israel to six million!
Jethro, told Moses to build teams in order to serve and meet the needs of the people.
Jesus Himself built a team - the twelve disciples - to meet the needs and serve others.
This is the biblical calling of every single church that claims Christ as Lord and Savior.
Each and every one that follows Christ is called to serve.
Peter in 1 Peter chapter 2 begins by telling new believers to “crave pure spiritual milk so that you will grow into a full experience of salvation”.
That full experience is found when we understand who we are as believers.
1 Peter 2:4–5 (NLT)
4 You are coming to Christ, who is the living cornerstone of God’s temple.
He was rejected by people, but he was chosen by God for great honor.
5 And you are living stones that God is building into his spiritual temple.
What’s more, you are his holy priests.
Through the mediation of Jesus Christ, you offer spiritual sacrifices that please God.
You are a holy priest for Christ.
You are Kingdom priests who have been commissioned by Christ to go into the world and share the Good News of Jesus Christ, make disciples, and to serve those around you.
Church, each and everyone of us has a responsibility in the biblical church.
It will take each and everyone of us to accomplish what Christ died for.
Ephesians 4:16 (NASB95)
16 from whom the whole body, being fitted and held together by what every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love.
Could it be that the reason the Kingdom is not growing, is because we have become consumers rather than contributors?
A team is a group of individuals working together who collaborate on related tasks to achieve their common goal.
**Pic of me and Todd kayaking - we worked as a team calling out obstructions in the way**
Todd and I’s common task that day was to get from Los Molinos to Woodson Bridge.
What is our common goal?
Matthew 9:37–38 (NASB95)
37 Then He said to His disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few.
38 “Therefore beseech the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into His harvest.”
The harvest that belongs to the Lord.
There are people in our community that belong to Christ and we are called to work together to gather them.
Jesus Came to Serve
Jesus is our role model for serving.
When we think of why Jesus came to earth, we can make a list that includes saving people from sins, healing the sick, giving hope to the hopeless, forgiveness, and the list can go on and on.
There is one thing that Jesus did that encompasses all of these and more.
In everything Jesus said and did, Jesus served others.
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