
REVIEW
Wasting time, money, brain power
Wasting the summer in ministry
Wasting Ministry in the Church
ROMANS 12:1-2
1 Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. 2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
ROMANS 12:3-8
3 For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the faith God has distributed to each of you. 4 For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, 5 so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others. 6 We have different gifts, according to the grace given to each of us. If your gift is prophesying, then prophesy in accordance with your faith; 7 if it is serving, then serve; if it is teaching, then teach; 8 if it is to encourage, then give encouragement; if it is giving, then give generously; if it is to lead, do it diligently; if it is to show mercy, do it cheerfully.
1. GRACE GIVEN ME
GRACE = GOD’S RICHES AT CHRIST’S EXPENSE
2. ARROGANCE VS. HUMILITY
ROMANS 12:3
Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the faith God has distributed to each of you.
3. BODY OF CHRIST
ROMANS 12:5
so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others.
4. DIFFERENT GIFTS
GIFTS (This list isn’t complete)
PROPHECY = PROPHESY
SERVING= SERVE
TEACHING = TEACH
ENCOURAGE = ENCOURAGEMENT
GIVING = GIVE GENEROUSLY
LEAD = DILIGENTLY
MERCY = CHEERFULLY
APPLICATION:
1. LIVING SACRIFICE = HOLY + PLEASING
Romans 12:1-2
2. WALK IN GRACE GIVEN YOU
3. HUMILITY
4. BODY OF CHRIST
FIND YOUR GIFT AND USE IT!
ROMANS 12:10
Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves.