Find Your Serve

Find Your Serve FOR You – Rob: We serve to grow in holiness and experience the fullness of the Holy Sprit in our lives.

As a church we are only as mature as our least mature believe When You serve, it always leads to a WE

Week 3: January 16-17 - Rob

Find Your Serve FOR You

Ephesians 2:1-10

Finding our serve is a crucial step in living out the new life in Jesus. We serve because we are grateful for how we have been rescued and we serve because it reminds us God is making us to be like Jesus.

Ephesians 4.11-15

Rom 12.3-8

I Cor 12

The Goal is that YOU become part of WE

JESUS died for You because You are a mess

We are FOR You so Jesus can clean you up so that You can become a Part of We

You are a mess cleaned up by God

We are called to reach out to YOU and raise YOU up to be part of WE

The kingdom Village Chapel

Ephesians 2:1–10 (ESV) — 1 And you were dead in the trespasses and sins 2 in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— 3 among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. 4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, 5 even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— 6and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 7 so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. 8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast. 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

Thought: Have you ever noticed when YOU begin to serve it always becomes about WE?

Possible Illustration: “Here is the church. Here is the steeple. Open the doors and see all the people.”

Possible Song Reference: We are the Church

The church is not a building;

the church is not a steeple;

the church is not a resting place;

the church is a people.

I am the church! You are the church!

We are the church together!

All who follow Jesus,

all around the world!

Yes, we're the church together!

Introduction - Suzy

Find Your Serve Review the Previous two Sermons Any additional thoughts about FOR You

Could use the illustration or Song above Could use Something else Read Scripture Pray

Body of Sermon - Rob

Eph 2.1-3. And YOU…

Dead (1) - trespasses & sins Following (2) - sons of , prince, sons of disobedience Lived (3a) - passions of FLESH Carrying Out (3b) - desires of the body & Mind Were (3c) - children of wrath

Eph 2. 4-8 But GOD…

Mercy (4a) - Dead to ALIVE Grace (5b) - Condemned to SAVED

Eph 2. 9-10 For WE

Workmanship (10a) -

You have been reshaped, reformed For What Purpose Good Works (10b)

Not for Salvation (vs9) Because of Salvation What are Good works?

Eph. 4.11-15 Rom. 12.3-8 I Cor 12 Prepared Beforehand - God has always imagined you doing these things We SHOULD Walk (10c)

1 Pt. 4.10 YOU get to decide if you will walk in them ILLUSTRATION: what would YOU look like if others did not Walk? Suzy - My suggestions is to tell your Story - What would have happened if you had not Walked into the Good Worlk God had for You - Tell your story :)

Any other thoughts - Could include this but you do not have to :)

WE lose out if you do not walk in them

The Kingdom The Church The Person Conclusion/Challenge

How to Fill out the Form How many we are hoping for Anything else Prayer