Ministry is Messy - Clean it Up with Thanksgiving and Prayer (2)

Introduction

Main Idea: Be Thankful and Prayerful for the People God Entrusts to You!

Main Idea:

Attention (Why should they listen to you?)

Attention (Why should they listen to you?)

What is the Hearer’s problem?

What is the Biblical Solution?

What do the hearers need to know?

Be Thankful for Their Faith, Hope and Love (vs. 3-8)Be Prayerful for Their Knowledge, Fruit and Endurance (vs. 9-14)

Main Textual Idea:

Main Sermon Idea: Be Thankful and Prayerful for the People God Entrusts to You!

Interrogative:

Interrogative:

Transition:

Be Thankful for Their Faith, Hope and Love (vs. 3-8)

Be Prayerful for Their Knowledge, Fruit and Endurance (vs. 9-14)

Lead in...

Colossians 1:3–8 ESV

3 We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, 4 since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints, 5 because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel, 6 which has come to you, as indeed in the whole world it is bearing fruit and increasing—as it also does among you, since the day you heard it and understood the grace of God in truth, 7 just as you learned it from Epaphras our beloved fellow servant. He is a faithful minister of Christ on your behalf 8 and has made known to us your love in the Spirit.

Explain -

Thankful for their FAITH -

Thankful for their HOPE -

Thankful for their LOVE -

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Review - Be Thankful and Prayerful for the People God Entrusts to You!

Be Thankful for Their Faith, Hope and Love

Be Prayerful for Their Knowledge, Fruit and Endurance (vs. 9-14)

Be Prayerful for Their Knowledge, Fruit and Endurance (vs. 9-14)

Lead in...

Colossians 1:9–14 ESV

9 And so, from the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, 10 so as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him: bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; 11 being strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy; 12 giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in light. 13 He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, 14 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

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Knowledge, Fruit and Endurance (vs. 9-14)

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Prayerful for their KNOWLEDGE -

Prayerful for their FRUIT -

Prayerful for their ENDURANCE -

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Review - Be Thankful and Prayerful for the People God Entrusts to You!

Be Thankful and Prayerful for the People God Entrusts to You!

Be Thankful for Their Faith, Hope and Love

Be Prayerful for Their Knowledge, Fruit and Endurance

Conclusion -

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Land the Plane

John 3:16 ESV

16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.