“WorkmanShip”
Ephesians 2:10 (NLT) For we are God’s workmanship. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.
A disciple is one who finds, follows and becomes fully formed to be like Jesus.
Jesus was a difference maker.
Matthew 5:13-16 Let me tell you why you are here. You’re here to be salt-seasoning that brings out the God-flavors of this earth. If you lose your saltiness, how will people taste godliness? You’ve lost your usefulness and will end up in the garbage. 14-16 “Here’s another way to put it: You’re here to be light, bringing out the God-colors in the world. God.
God Needs Me To Make A Difference
God Always Works With Human Participation
God does the miracle but you play a part.
John 11:34 “Where have you laid him?” he asked.“Come and see, Lord,” they replied.
John 11:39 “Take away the stone,” he said. “But, Lord,” said Martha, the sister of the dead man, “by this time there is a bad odor, for he has been there four days.”
Expose it
John 11:41 So they took away the stone. Then Jesus looked up and said, “Father, I thank you that you have heard me. 42 I knew that you always hear me, but I said this for the benefit of the people standing here, that they may believe that you sent me.” 43 When he had said this, Jesus called in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!” 44 The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped with strips of linen, and a cloth around his face. Jesus said to them, “Take off the grave clothes and let him go.”
#1 Give Permission
#2 Play Your Part
Nobody has everything but everybody has something.
1 Peter 5:8 "Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour."
#1 We listen
Jeremiah 33:3 ‘Call to Me and I will answer you, and tell you [and even show you] great and mighty things, [things which have been confined and hidden], which you do not know and understand and cannot distinguish.’
#2. We find people.
Luke 19:10 The Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.
Found people, find people.
#3. We serve people
Saved people serve people!
Matthew 9:37 (NIV) "The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few.
