1. Called to Serve
Ordinary People;
Ordinary Service: Eternal Difference

2. Mark 8:34 Then he called the crowd to
him along with his disciples and said: "If
anyone would come after me, he must
deny himself and take up his cross and
follow me."

3. Mark 8:35 For whoever wants to save his
life will lose it, but whoever loses his life
for me and for the gospel will save it.

4. Mark 10:45 For even the Son of Man did
not come to be served but to serve and to
give His life as a ransom for many.

5. Romans 8:28 We know that in everything
God works for good with those who love
him, who are called according to his
purpose.

6. 29For those whom he foreknew he also
predestined to be conformed to the image
of his Son, in order that he might be the
first-born among many brethren.

7. What keeps us from embracing servant hood?
"What can I do"? mentality

8. What keeps us from embracing servant hood?
Matthew 10:42 And if anyone gives even
a cup of cold water to one of these little
ones because he is my disciple, I tell you
the truth, he will certainly not lose his
reward."

9. What keeps us from embracing servant hood?
"I’m too busy" mentality

10. What keeps us from embracing servant hood?
1 Kings 20:40 While your servant was
busy here and there, the man
disappeared." "That is your sentence," the
king of Israel said. "You have
pronounced it yourself."

11. The Church
"Ecclesia" = the people of God

12. The Church
Ephesians 4:11 And His gifts were that
some were
apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors
and teachers.

13. The Church
Ephesians 4:12… to equip the saints for
the work of ministry for building up the
body of Christ...

14. The Church
1. Key people: You.

15. The Church
God's plan to make a difference
in the world is ordinary
people doing ordinary things!

16. The Church
2. Key purpose: Maturity.

17. The Church
Ephesians 4:13... until we all attain to
the unity of the faith and of the
knowledge of the Son of God, to mature
manhood, to the measure of the stature of
the fullness of Christ;

18. The Church
As we serve what are the
outcomes we have in view?

19. The Church
Unity of faith.
Knowledge of the Son of God.
Spiritual maturity.

20. The Church
14sothat we may no longer be
children, tossed to and fro and carried
about with every wind of doctrine, by the
cunning of men, by their craftiness in
deceitful wiles.

21. The Church
Doctrine in line with the Bible.

22. The Church
15Rather, speaking the truth in love, we
are to grow up in every way into him who
is the head, into Christ,

23. The Church
Truthing in love.

24. The Church
16from whom the whole body, joined and
knit together by every joint with which it
is supplied, when each part is working
properly, makes bodily growth and
upbuilds itself in love.

25. The Church
Reaching people.
Growing in love.

26. The Church
1 Peter 4:10 As each has received a
gift, employ it for one another as good
stewards of God's varied grace.

27. The Church
Mark 10:45 For even the Son of Man did
not come to be served but to serve and to
give His life as a ransom for many.