Live Like a Champion – Week 33
The Promise of Leadership!
Presented by Reverend Mark Thompson (ABC Regional Pastor)
(The following are notes taken during the message, there may be some misinterpretations of what Rev. Thompson actually said. Listen to his message to hear for yourself.)
Ephesians 4:15:
Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ.
Serving the Lord demolishes all of our preferences.
God exists in community (the Trinity) and He creates us to live in community.
Ephesians 4:11-16:
11 So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers, 12 to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up 13 until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.
14 Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of people in their deceitful scheming. 15 Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ. 16 From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work.
18 “Forget the former things;
do not dwell on the past.
19 See, I am doing a new thing!
Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?
I am making a way in the wilderness
and streams in the wasteland.
God may be calling you into leadership.
Justified – It is “just-as-if-I’d never sinned. All the labels come off! (Good & Bad)
Sanctification – We are set apart for God’s purposes.
We think we need time to think about what God wants us to do, to make careful consideration before moving. We say something like, “I don’t know all of the things I need to know in order to do all of the things I need to do. I need to think about it.”
“God calls us to act our way to NEW THINKING, no to THINK our way to NEW ACTING!”
– Mike Mather, a pastor
Ministry takes all of us – and more!