This Week’s Scriptures
Ephesians 2 & 4
Tip: The text boxes on the right are there for you to take your own notes as we go.
1. Listen to the Message
God did not create you to sit, soak and sour. He created you to strive, arrive and thrive serving with the giftedness He gave you.
God wants us to “one-another one-another.”
Every member is a minister.
God’s plan is the Pastors are the administers and the members are the ministers.
The body dies when it’s not being fed and ministered to.
Your
As each one has received a special gift, employ it in serving one another as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. —1 Peter 4:10
A sign of spiritual maturity is that we have gone from wearing a
2. Discuss in a Life Group
READ
And you were dead in your trespasses and sins, 2 in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience. —Ephesians 2:1-2
For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; 9 not as a result of works, so that no one may boast. 10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them. —Ephesians 2:8-10
Therefore I, the prisoner of the Lord, implore you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling with which you have been called, 2 with all humility and gentleness, with patience, showing tolerance for one another in love, 3 being diligent to preserve the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. 4 There is one body and one Spirit, just as also you were called in one hope of your calling; 5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism, 6 one God and Father of all who is over all and through all and in all.7 But to each one of us grace was given according to the measure of Christ’s gift. 8 Therefore it says,
“When He ascended on high,
He led captive a host of captives,
And He gave gifts to men.” —Ephesians 4:1-8
DISCUSS
Describe what “serving” means and what it looks like in the church.
Discuss the Eph 4 passage about how the Pastors are the “administers” and the members are the ministers.
Describe what it means for “Many hands make light work” in serving in the ministries of the church.
Discuss areas you are serving now or have served in the past and how it blessed you.
How should we relate the fact that Jesus served up His life for us as we contemplate jumping in on the Dream Team?
3. Pray Together
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