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From the First Day
Ministry is a pathway to maturity.
Mentorship is a pathway to maturity.
Discipleship, according to Jesus, is the combination of ministry and mentorship.
He trains and sens.
What have you done since the first day?
The first day you met your best friend.
The first day you met your spouse.
The first day in your new job.
The first day in your new school.
The first day you met your daughter, your son.
What have you done since the first day?
Paul’s first day in Ephesus was sometime in 54 A.D. After that, he went to Macedonia around 55 A.D. He spent about two years there.
From the first day until the last, he invested his life into the people.
What have you done with your life?
How have you invested your life?
I’m going to show you three examples of how Paul invested his life:
He took people along.
He met with people.
He led them.
This isn’t the only model, but it is what Luke shows us.
We should take note.
Paul shows us how to take people along in ministry.
He shows us the importance of meeting together.
He shows us the importance of strong leadership.
It results in raising up disciples and establishing a healthy church.
What are you doing from the first day?
Let’s look at how Paul took people along for ministry:
Let’s look at how Paul met with people to teach/train them:
Let’s look at how Paul led people in ministry:
Before we read Paul’s message to the elders from Ephesus, let’s ask a few questions:
Do you pray for the people God has put you around?
Do you take people along to do ministry with you?
Do you meet with people to invest in them?
Do you provide leadership for people around you?
Elders and Overseers: Acts 20:17 and Acts 20:28
At WBC, we call Elders and Overseers: Pastors.
The terms are interchangeable, basically three cohesive roles in one title.
The elders from Ephesus were also overseers who shepherded (or, pastored) the church.
We have time.
I’ve heard people say our culture is over, hopefully Jesus will just come back.
Take a look back at what Nick said last week:
“Do we believe God can and will defeat the evils of today, false religions, political division, immorality, idolatry, violence?
Do we believe God can draw those who don’t believe in Jesus to himself?”
Now, check out what Paul says:
“be on the alert”
He doesn’t say “wolves” won’t come at you.
He doesn’t say “men” won’t rise up against you.
Instead, Paul says to go back into Ephesus, the city that chants: “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians.”
Equipped disciples don’t fear culture, they transform it.
They have been doing ministry with you in the midst of darkness.
They have sat with you and learned from you.
They have been led by you to remain strong and be on guard in the middle of the wolves.
Fear drives us to escape darkness.
Fear drives us away from the wolves.
People who haven’t done ministry in the darkness talk bad about people in the darkness.
Don’t be afraid, the Lord is with you in the darkness.
Parents:
Your kids aren’t going to be strong in the midst of wolves and an evil culture by never taking them into the midst of the darkness.
That’s like a basketball player who learns everything about the game without every playing a game being thrown into the nba championship and expecting them to win.
Knowledge of the game doesn’t mean you can win.
We have to invest, by taking them with us, sitting with them to train, and leading them to go!
Friends:
2. Many of your friends face the world in their jobs, families, and when they are alone to act or think.
How are you actively investing in them?
Spouses:
I want to be in a place where I can say: “I am innocent of the blood of all of you.”
You might say: well isn’t this only for elders?
Yes and no.
Elders are shepherds, leading the church to follow the way of Jesus who:
1. took people along for ministry
2. met with them to train them
3. led them to go
Here’s your gospel response this morning:
Take someone with you on a ministry opportunity in the next two weeks.
Invest through a group.
Prayerfully lead others.
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