Camp Revive- Ministry
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29 For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.
Pastor Jake asked me to lead this breakout session, focusing on the ministry.
What do you think of when you hear the word ministry?
People often see ministry from the outside looking in. They hear a message, they see a pastor/missionary/evangelist. They participate in ministry.
Instead of looking from the outside in, I want to spend the next two days looking at ministry from the inside out.
The Apostle Paul told the Church in Rome that the call of God is irrevocable, meaning, the call of God can never be withdrawn.
When God calls someone to the ministry, nothing and no one can remove that calling. We can try to run from the calling, we can attempt to ignore the calling, but when God places His hand on our lives, He desires that we submit and enter into all He has for us.
I want to look at three aspects of ministry:
The Minister
The Ministry
The Message
What is a minister?
What is the ministry?
What is our message?
Who is your best minister in Scripture?
What was their ministry?
What was their message?
To focus on the ministry today and tomorrow, I want to look to Jesus as the example.
Before we look at WHAT Jesus did in the ministry, let’s focus on WHO He was a minister.
He was a servant:
28 just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.”
3 Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into His hands, and that He had come from God and was going to God,
4 rose from supper and laid aside His garments, took a towel and girded Himself.
5 After that, He poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet, and to wipe them with the towel with which He was girded.
How could it be that the ONE who was to save humanity served everyone else?
He was filled with the Spirit:
16 When He had been baptized, Jesus came up immediately from the water; and behold, the heavens were opened to Him, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting upon Him.
17 And suddenly a voice came from heaven, saying, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”
38 how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him.
He was a man of prayer:
To prepare for a major task Luke 4:1-2, 14-15.
After Jesus was baptized He spent 40 days praying in the wilderness. After this He was tempted by Satan and then began His public ministry.
To recharge after hard work Mark 6:30-32. Jesus sent the 12 disciples out to do ministry. When they returned He encouraged them to separate from the people who were following them to rest.
To work through grief Matthew 14:1-13. After Jesus learned that his cousin John the Baptist had been beheaded, He went away by Himself. Yes, even the Son of God grieves.
Before making an important decision Luke 6:12-13. Early in His ministry Jesus spent the whole night alone in prayer. The next day He chose his 12 disciples.
In a time of distress Luke 22:39-44. Hours before Jesus was arrested He went to the Mt. of Olives and went a short distance away from His disciples to pray. He was in great emotional agony knowing what he was about to face.
To focus on prayer Luke 5:16. Many times in Jesus’ ministry He spent time alone in prayer.
EVERYTHING JESUS DID IN THE MINISTRY CAME FROM HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD AS A MINISTER.
When we place ministry to people over our ministry to God, we end up with misplaced priorities.
The importance of our ministry is how we minister/serve the Lord.
We must be people of prayer
people of service
people of the Spirit
THE MINISTRY
Our responsibility in ministry
19 Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
20 teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.
15 And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.
16 He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned.
17 And these signs will follow those who believe: In My name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues;
18 they will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”
19 So then, after the Lord had spoken to them, He was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.
20 And they went out and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them and confirming the word through the accompanying signs. Amen.
49 “Behold, I send the Promise of My Father upon you; but tarry in the city of Jerusalem until you are endued with power from on high.”
8 But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”
12 for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ,
13 till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ;
14 that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting,
15 but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ—
16 from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.
The Message
The Lord’s Prayer
Romans 8
Miracles in the book of John