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Pastor Bobby Earls, First Baptist Church, Center Point, Alabama
February 1, 2009
(Much of the following message is gleaned from John Maxwell's TEAM Ministry and
his seminar notes on God's Master Game Plan.)
11 And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and
some pastors and teachers, 12 for the equipping of the saints for the work of
ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ,
(NKJV)
Let’s have a little fun with the sermon today.
It’s Super Bowl Sunday; we might
as well join in the spirit of the game, even though I don’t have any particular feelings
for who might win tonight’s game.
Maybe you do.
How many of you are pulling for
the Pittsburg Steelers?
Who would like to see the Arizona Cardinals win?
How many
of you are like me, you just don’t care?
But what if the church played in the Super Bowl?
What if today’s church, the
typical church, even our church here at FBCP, what if we played in the Super Bowl?
You’d certainly have cause to tune in and cheer for the church wouldn’t you?
Sure
you would!
What I really want to do is to walk us through five scenes of what the Super Bowl
might look like, if the church were to play the Super Bowl.
Along the way, what I
hope you learn about the church is this: "The average church does not need
more members, it needs more ministers!
SCENE #1: THE COACH PLAYS ALONE
Imagine the scene as the teams are introduced to the crowds shortly after 5:00 p.m.
this afternoon at the Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida.
You know the
scene.
The players run onto the field.
Bands are playing.
Rockets explode.
A squadron of
Air Force Jets flies overhead.
The players go crazy.
Ben Roethlisberger and Kurt
Warner, the team quarterbacks are shouting and pumping up their teams.
But the Super Bowl I’m talking about this morning is very different.
The coin is
tossed, the National Anthem is played and the opposing team runs onto the field.
(We’ll call them the Devil’s Demons.)
Then the cameras zoom in on the church still
on the sideline, saying the Lord's Prayer.
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But when the prayer is over, instead of the church taking the field of play, they stay
on the sideline and the coach runs onto the field.
And if the church is large enough to
have some assistant coaches they run out on the field as well.
Anyway, the coach
lines up to receive the kick-off.
Now we know what's going to happen.
The ball is
kicked and the coach makes the catch and takes a few steps forward and, "BOOM."
Eleven of the Devil’s most talented special teams’ players converge at once on the
poor coach.
He dies and goes to Jesus.
Now who's the church's coach?
Who?
The pastor is the church's coach.
In some
churches, like ours, we're fortunate to have a staff of ministers.
But do you really
think the coach alone or the staff alone stand a chance against the Devil's Demons?
About as much chance as the Cardinals have of beating the Steelers today.
I can see it now.
They kick off.
I set John and Danny up front to throw a few blocks.
But all they hit is the ground.
I catch the ball.
Take a few steps forward and realize
I'm about to make my wife a young widow, so what do I do?
I lateral the ball to
David Huffstutler across the field and yell, “Run, David H., run."
That's why we
brought you here.
Reach those youth.
Grow our Sunday School.
I'm praying for
you!"
No. That's not the way to play a football game, especially not the Super Bowl.
But
sadly, that often illustrates the way too many churches try to do the work of ministry
in the church.
Remember our text, , He gave some to be apostles, some prophets,
some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, 12 for the equipping of the saints
for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ,
Let me give you another Example of Lay Ministry the way the church ought to play
the game.
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Observations
1.
The pastors were unable to meet all the needs,
The average size church in America has 112 members with an average attendance of
70.
Do you know why?
That's all one man can effectively serve.
After that, the
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