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Introduction
Created Needy
We are all needy people.
This is not just because we are sinful, but because we are human.
God designed us with built in dependence on him.
We need to sleep.
We need to eat.
We need to hear from God.
These are all things Adam and Eve needed even before the fall.
In fact, when God created Adam and Even, he had to explain who they were and what their jobs were, and what they needed for nourishment.
They needed instruction from God, not because they were sinners – sin has not entered at this point in the story, but because they were human.
Needy people were created with two unique abilities: to communicate and to worship.
They were able to receive and interpret God’s revelation.
Eve received God’s revelation and misinterpreted it, which led to her deception and disobedience.
God also created us to worship, but we are still dependent on communication from God regarding who we worship and how this worship should be done.
The problem is we have another counselor, Satan, who twists God’s revelation so that our interpretation is off.
Post fall, this problem is compounded by the presence of indwelling sin.
Our interpretations are fuzzy and skewed because sin affects every area, including how we interpret ourselves and the world.
“If it is true that all humans are constantly trying to make sense out of life, then all of life is counseling or personal ministry.
Counseling is the stuff of human life.”(Tripp,
Instruments In The Redeemer’s Hands, 40)
“As Christians, each of us needs help, and each of us is called to offer it.”
(Tripp, Instruments In The Redeemer’s Hands, 50)
Christians are ambassadors precisely because of this problem.
God can’t be seen, so he sent Jesus into the world to incarnate the love and character of God.
As Christians, or Little Christs, we look to Jesus as our example and follow in his footsteps.
We are to represent the message of the King, the methods of the King, and the character of the King.
Jesus did this perfectly, so we look to him as our example.
A paradigm that we see in the ministry of Jesus is love, know, speak, do.
Love is foundational for personal change.
Knowing is not some surface level knowledge, but a deep understanding of the heart.
Speaking declares the truth of God in a particular circumstance to effect heart change, and do calls for a response to the truth spoken.
Surface the Need
Lets say that you are in a small group and you learn that one of the couples was confronted by the Word preached and Sunday morning, and recognized significant sin in their marriage.
They ask for prayer as they seek to repent of sin and pursue God in their marriage.
What do you do?
There is another person who refuses to participate in your community group and views the gathering as a burden.
What do you say?
One of the single guys explains asks for prayer as he starts a dating relationship.
You know the young lady he is dating, and know for a fact she does not claim to be a believer.
What should you say?
After church on Sunday, you talk to one of the young couples in front of you at church.
They’ve been trying to have kids for a while, but have had difficulty getting pregnant.
After a couple years of trying and praying, they find out they are finally pregnant.
After 10 weeks she miscarries.
She breaks down crying in the pew.
What next
You meet someone new on Sunday Morning?
God has sovereignly ordained that this person should be here right now talking to you.
How do you start ministering?
As ambassadors of Jesus, our job is to incarnate the love of Christ to these people.
Jesus showed his love for us by entering into our world, submitting himself to the sake weakness that we all have experienced.
He suffered just as we suffer, and was tempted in all things just as we are.
He entered our world so save people, to change hearts, not just to solve problems.
That should be our goal as well.
Maybe you are at church and you meet someone knew for the first time.
God has sovereignly ordained that you should bump into that person on that particular Sunday.
How do you proceed to minister to that person?
One of the single guys explains asks for prayer as he starts a dating relationship.
You know the young lady he is dating, and know for a fact she does not claim to be a believer.
What do you do?
One of the single guys explains asks for prayer as he starts a dating relationship.
You know the young lady he is dating, and know for a fact she does not claim to be a believer.
What do you do?
After church on Sunday, you talk to one of the young couples in front of you at church.
They’ve been trying to have kids for a while, but have had difficulty getting pregnant.
After a couple years of trying and praying, they find out they are finally pregnant.
After 10 weeks she miscarries.
She breaks down crying in the pew.
Love
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The beginning of personal ministry is to show genuine love for the person you have opportunity to serve.
b.
The person to whom you are speaking in not your “project.”
He/She is someone that Christ loves and they must sense that you love them on Christ’s behalf.
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The person to whom you are speaking in not your “project.”
He/She is someone that Christ loves and they must sense that you love them on Christ’s behalf.
c. Paul Trip writes, “I am deeply persuaded that the foundation for people-transforming ministry is not sound theology; it is love.
Without love, our theology is a boat without oars.”[1]
c. Paul Trip writes, “I am deeply persuaded that the foundation for people-transforming ministry is not sound theology; it is love.
Without love, our theology is a boat without oars.”(Tripp,
Instruments In The Redeemer’s Hands, 117)
d. 1 Cor.
13:1-3 warns that our ministry to others will fall flat if we do not approach it out of love.
How is love manifest?
(13:4-7) It is patient, kind, it 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 doesn’t rejoice in wrong-doing but rejoices in the truth.
It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.
d. warns that our ministry to others will fall flat if we do not approach it out of love.
How is love manifest?
(13:4-7) It is patient, kind, it 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 doesn’t rejoice in wrong-doing but rejoices in the truth.
It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.
e. Definition: To love is to give what you have that they need because God wants you to.
(cf.
John 3:16; Eph.
5:25).
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