The Same or Different

1 Corinthians 12:4-7

Are you the same?

Are we the same?

Genesis 1:26 “Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.

God created us as unique individuals

looks

attitudes

personalities

interest

ideas

Talents

We are all created in the image of God but we are all created differently

1 Corinthians 12:4–7 (ESV)

Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord; and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who empowers them all in everyone. To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.

I. Varieties of Gifts

Romans 12:6-8 “Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, in proportion to our faith; if service, in our serving; the one who teaches, in his teaching; the one who exhorts, in his exhortation; the one who contributes, in generosity; the one who leads, with zeal; the one who does acts of mercy, with cheerfulness.”

I look around the room I see

teachers - love students - God called you to change life for the better.

Coaches - teach - work hard, do your best,

agriculture

Skilled craftsman. -

problem solvers - oil field , medical, first responders, administration

Special gifts God has given you threw the trials you have gone threw. - Those that have lost love ones, overcome illness and injury, overcome addictions

Gift of Love

1 Corinthians 13:1-8 “If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.”

Why don’t we use these in the local Church

What keeps it you form serving in the Church

is it membership

is it confidence

is it not knowing the scripture

Ephesians 4:11-13 “And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,”

You use your gifts for God in the world

Use them for God in the Church also

II. Varieties of service

1 Peter 4:10-11 “As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God’s varied grace: whoever speaks, as one who speaks oracles of God; whoever serves, as one who serves by the strength that God supplies—in order that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.”

Romans 12:4 “For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function,”

In our Church - this body of believers

Preachers

teachers

workers

Where can you serve

Sunday morning

get here early open up.

get coffee

go get the donuts

take Sunday school records

Sunday school teachers

Subs

Sunday school helpers

Nursery for sunday school

Nursery for church

Kids church

Door greeters

help with the offering

lock the back doors

sit in the back

Lock up church

Wednesday nights.

bringing food

cooking food

cleaning up - my teachers are doing this

security

locking up.

Chasing kids

teaching

help teaching

Others ways to serve.

Cleaning

Maintenance

outreach

funerals

in-reach

web page - social media

sound room

There are a varieties of Services in this Church

III. Varieties of activities

Bible studies

Camps

Men’s and Women’s retreats

Children's activities - the painting party coming up.

Halloween night

5th Sunday breakfast

5th Sunday sing - missed out invite others we need to be here

Frog giggen contest

1 Corinthians 12:4-7 “Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord; and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who empowers them all in everyone. To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.”

IV. Same Spirit, same Lord, Same God.

Different Gift - in powered by the Same Holy Sprite

1 Corinthians 3:16 “Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?”

2. Services - Same Lord. - we serve the same Lord Jesus Christ.

Jesus told fisherman to Follow me.

Jesus told a tax collector to follow me.

3. Varieties of activities - but the same God.

1 Corinthians 10:31 “So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.”

V. Common Good

“All for one and one for all” is best known as the motto of the title characters in the book The Three Musketeers, by the nineteenth-century French author Alexandre Dumas.

1 Corinthians 12:12-14 “For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit. For the body does not consist of one member but of many.”

1 Corinthians 12:27 “Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.”