Episodes
Sunday May 26, 2019
05-26-19 Kevin Goins - From Gifts to Ministry
Sunday May 26, 2019
Sunday May 26, 2019
“From Gifts to Ministry” Acts 6:1-7
Recently we have been talking about spiritual gifts and how to discover which gift is ours. But how does God take gifted people and motivate them to use their gifts for ministry? That is the focus of our text today.
I This text is about taking gifted people in the church and placing them in positions of m___________ where they can serve. And it shows us the four ___’s God provides to make this happen.
II What does God give us to motivate us to use our gifts in the church?
A. First, God provides us with p_______________ (6:1).
1. There were _____ kinds of Jewish believers in the early church because there were _____ kinds of Jews: (1) H____________ Jews and (2) G_______________ Jews.
The Grecian Jewish widows who had become believers in Jesus had the church to help them, but they believed they were not being treated f__________.
3. There will be problems in using our gifts, but problems are God’s
provision for us because problems often l_______ us on to the next l_________ of ministry.
B. Second God provides us with a p____________ (6:2-4).
1. Helping the widows would have been a good thing for the Apostles to do, but the g_____ can be the enemy of the b_______.
2. God’s plan for the church is not just that Pastors should preach and pray, but that church members should use their gifts to do ____________ ________.
C. Third, God provides us with p_______________ (6:5-6).
-The early church teaches us that when you have a ministry need, you find the people to meet that need in the __________.
D. Fourth, God provides us with p_____________ (6:7).
Tuesday May 21, 2019
05-19-19 Bruce Bliss - Motivational Gifts
Tuesday May 21, 2019
Tuesday May 21, 2019
Tuesday May 14, 2019
05-12-19 Kevin Goins - Gifts, part 2
Tuesday May 14, 2019
Tuesday May 14, 2019
“Gifts” 1 Corinthians 12:1-11
God has not only called us to do the work of enlarging his Kingdom in this world, but he has gifted us with the tools we need to do the job. What do we need to do to use our spiritual gifts?
I We must know what the Bible teaches about spiritual gifts (12:1). II We need to know where the gifts come from (12:2-3). III We must not be copycats (12:4-6). IV We must not doubt that we have a gift(s) (12:7).
V We need to recognize that the power of the gifts is s___________ (12:8-10).
A. First, spiritual gifts cannot be put into a nice, neat, and tidy ______.
1. There are ______ lists of gifts in the New Testament: 1 Cor 12:__-__, 1 Cor 12:__-__, Rom 12:__-__, Eph 4:__, and 1 Peter 4:__-__ .
2. No list of gifts in the New Testament is c__________, which means there may be _______ gifts mentioned nowhere in the Bible.
Second, the spiritual gifts show us that the Holy Spirit thought of e___________ we might n_____.
1. The word of wisdom – a message which s_________ a difficult problem or s__________ an opponent of the faith.
2. The word of knowledge – f_____ given by the Holy Spirit to someone who could not get this information in any other way.
3. The gift of faith – the ability to believe that God is about to s________ his power in a r___________ way.
4. Gifts of healings – the ability to be God’s i__________ in healing the sick.
5. Workings of miracles – the ability to b_______ God for a miracle.
6. Prophecy – the ability to speak a m___________ from God to his people.
7. Distinguishing between spirits – the ability to tell whether a prophecy is truly f_____ ____.
8. Speaking in tongues – the ability to speak a language never l________ by the speaker.
9. The interpretation of tongues – the ability to give the m________ of what a person said who was speaking in tongues.
C. Lastly, the spiritual gifts teach us that there is no _________ when it comes to what God has enabled us to do for him.
1. Limiting certain gifts to the first century is called c________________.
2. Cessationism has serious problems:
a. The New Testament never calls any gifts “s______ gifts.”
b. If sign gifts were only needed because the New Testament was not yet published, how could the New Testament possibly t_____ the p______ of supernatural gifts?
c. Paul never ever mentions p_________ or t__________ gifts.
Monday Aug 21, 2017
08-20-17 Kevin Goins - The Discipline of Service
Monday Aug 21, 2017
Monday Aug 21, 2017
“The Discipline of Service”
Service is the work done by followers of Jesus to promote, enrich, and expand the Kingdom of God. But what, exactly, is the work we are expected to do? This is an easy question to answer: We are to do what Jesus did. As followers of Jesus we copy the service he carried out. Why do I say that the service Jesus did on earth is like the service we are called to do?
First, The work Jesus did was p_________ in a_________, and so is ours.
Second, the work Jesus did was r__________ and a__________ by some and h_______ and d____________ by others, and we can expect the same.
Third, the work Jesus did was e____________ by the ________ _________, and our work must be as well.
Fourth, Jesus didn’t work to get a ___________, he worked to give l_____ to o______, and that is also our calling.
Fifth, the work Jesus did l___ to ________, and so may our work.
VI But there is one way in which the service Jesus performed is not like ours – Jesus didn’t die as a ___________, he died as the __________ of sinners.