Buisness Meeting Devo

Before we get to the business of the church and the voting on the budget for the coming year

I think it is important to pause and have a devo before we get to other business

I think this helps get our minds in the right frame and to stay focus on the things that matter most.

So this evening as we meet as a church body I want to highlight the church.

1 Corinthians 12:4–6 NASB95

4 Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit. 5 And there are varieties of ministries, and the same Lord. 6 There are varieties of effects, but the same God who works all things in all persons.

There are a variety of ministries but all under the same God

They are all working under the same God

I think the problem in some churches and certainly a problem every church has the opportunity to face is that they may work under the one God but they may not all have the same goal, or even be working together.

Paul address this later in the chapter.

And so I want us to understand and to begin to work together for one goal, one purpose.

Understanding that how one particular ministry gets to that main goal will most certainly be different than another ministry.

For instance if our goal is to help people grow in Christ and to share the Gospel with a lost world.

That will look different for our Nursery than it will for our Outreach Ministry.

Our Nursery Ministry will spend their money differently than our Outreach.

Our Nursery will know who their people are and get materials to reach them accordingly, just like our Outreach Ministry, but still working together to reach that common goal and focus. They will have to work together in order for that to happen.

Paul has this to say about the church.

1 Corinthians 12:12 NASB95

12 For even as the body is one and yet has many members, and all the members of the body, though they are many, are one body, so also is Christ.

1 Corinthians 12:18–20 NASB95

18 But now God has placed the members, each one of them, in the body, just as He desired. 19 If they were all one member, where would the body be? 20 But now there are many members, but one body.

For the body to be successful ever part has to work.

I can tell you for the body to be successful and live, your lungs have to work properly and to their fullest, and when they aren’t it puts a terrible strain on the rest of the body.

For the body to be successful it has to work together, and when it begins to fight itself it gets really really scary.

So church as we go into the new year, let us commit to work together for the common goal of growing in Jesus and sharing Jesus. Let us work together as one body, not a bunch of individual ministries.

Lets Pray.