Calling of the Team Message

Vision Series

Calling of a Team

Scripture: Luke 5:1–11

What can you by for 35,000 dollars or rent for 3000.00 a day? 

The world’s first inflatable church made its debut last May in England, and its creator hopes that it will “breathe new life into Christianity.” Featured on CNN and other media outlets, the church is designed to fit in the back of a truck so that it can be hauled to village squares or open fields and set up for impromptu services.

Time was when churches were the centers of community life, but “sadly, that’s not the case anymore,” laments the innovator behind the inflatable church. “This is one way to reverse that trend, make the church more accessible and put it back where it belongs.” 

Three lessons from the Team Leader:

I.                  We Must _Follow His Lead

a.     Jesus was always Teaching

b.     We are apt to think that everything that happens to us is to be turned into useful teaching; it is to be turned into something better than teaching, that is, into character. We shall find that the spheres God brings us into are not meant to teach us something but to make us something. Oswald Chambers

c.      He Calls us to Teach, to influence, to encourage, to share, to

                                                             i.      Something happen in the teaching, people wanted more

1.     Problem

a.     Barrier

b.     Opportunity

d.     Jesus didn’t see the water as a barrier for defeat but a stepping stone for opportunity.

e.      Teaching is not a matter of rote rhetoric, but a matter of relationships

II.               We Must  __Heed  His Word

a.     The Disciples heard not only the word but the lesson

b.     Launch out into the Deep and let your nets down

                                                             i.      Do something that you haven’t done before.

c.      Peter speaks up and says, we’ve been fishing all night and caught nothing, but never the less by your  word we will do it

d.     Nevertheless, is a swing word that helps you get from one point to another.
 When you don’t understand what God is doing in your life and God is making no sense at all sometimes you just have to say nevertheless.

e.      Another Lesson with God there is always more than enough, and it’s important to share it.

f.       Eccl 4:9

g.     Proverbs 27:17

h.     John 4:34-36

i.       No one man is fully equipped for all the duties of his office, though two may be. The one often supplies what is lacking in the other\

j.       Catching Fish,

k.     Confession…. In the Presence of the Master ours do not compare

l.       Action ,Attitude, Astonishment

III.           We Must Focus  on His Goal

a.     God’s work done in God’s way will not lack his supply.
“You will not succeed by your own strength or power, but by my Spirit says the Lord.” Zech. 4:6

b.     Jesus calmed their fears

c.      Changed their focus

                                                             i.      You will now Fish for men, like you are fishermen