New Life Baptist Church's Christian Workers Seminar Workshops

2. INTRODUCTION:
THE POWER OF
TEAMWORK

4. WORKSHOP 1:
PROGRESS TO
PERFECTION

5. THE BIBLE GIVES US
THREE TYPES OF
PERFECTION:
Positional Perfection:
Our standing before God
Ultimate Perfection
What we will someday be

6. THE BIBLE GIVES US
THREE TYPES OF
PERFECTION:
Practical Perfection:
Spiritual maturing in this life
◦ Teaching is for perfecting
◦ Separation is for
perfecting

7. THE BIBLE GIVES US
THREE TYPES OF
PERFECTION:
Practical Perfection:
Spiritual maturing in this life
◦ Perfecting is a work of
the Spirit
◦ Trials serve in perfecting

8. THE AGENCY OF
PERFECTING IS THE
WORD OF GOD

9. TEACHING THE WORD
BRINGS PROGRESS TO
PERFECTION
◦ Reading – Read the text
◦ Exhortation – explain the
text
◦ Doctrine – apply the text

10. SUCCESSFUL MINISTRY
BRINGS PEOPLE TO
UNDERSTAND &
EMBRACE TRUTH
When your mind is
renewed then your
behavior responds to your
mind.

11. WORKSHOP 2:
PURPOSE IN
PERFECTION

12. PERFECTING THE SAINTS
MEANS:
Bringing Individual
Believers To Maturity
Bringing The Entire Body Into
Unity
◦ Perfection is spiritual
maturity

13. PERFECTING THE SAINTS
MEANS:
Bringing Individual
Believers To Maturity
Bringing The Entire Body Into
Unity
◦ Spiritual maturity is
required to do the work of
the ministry

14. PERFECTING THE SAINTS
MEANS:
Bringing The Entire Body Into
Unity
◦ Mature Christians:
▪ exhibit faithfulness
▪ take responsibility
▪ show initiative
▪ set an example

15. PERFECTING THE SAINTS
MEANS:
Bringing The Entire Body Into
Unity
◦ Mature Christians:
▪ work in cooperation
▪ embrace submission

16. THE PURPOSE OF PERFECTING
THE SAINTS IS FOR THE WORK
OF THE MINISTRY
Immature Saints Are Not
Equipped For The Work
Mature, Equipped Saints Are To
Have An Area of
Concentration For The Work

17. EVERY CHRISTIAN HAS
BEEN GIFTED BY THE
HOLY SPIRIT
There Are Two Kinds Of
Gifts: gifts
◦ Speaking
◦ Serving gifts

18. EVERY CHRISTIAN HAS
BEEN GIFTED BY THE
HOLY SPIRIT
Every Week, Every
Christian Should Be
Engaged In Ministry
Ministry Is Spiritual Service
To The Body of Christ

19. EVERY CHRISTIAN HAS
BEEN GIFTED BY THE
HOLY SPIRIT
Our Gifts Aren’t For
Ourselves, They Are For
Somebody Else
If We Don’t Minister,
Somebody Else Doesn’t
Benefit

20. EVERY CHRISTIAN HAS
BEEN GIFTED BY THE
HOLY SPIRIT
There Is No Distinction Of
Clergy & Laity In The Bible

21. EVERY CHRISTIAN HAS
BEEN GIFTED BY THE
HOLY SPIRIT
The Work Of The Ministry
▪Involves: sick
Visiting the
▪ Discipling new
▪ Prayer
Christians
▪ Following up on people
with problems

22. EVERY CHRISTIAN HAS
BEEN GIFTED BY THE
HOLY SPIRIT
The Work Of The Ministry
▪Involves:counseling
Spiritual
▪ Providing physical
▪ Showing love and
needs
genuine concern

23. EVERY CHRISTIAN HAS
BEEN GIFTED BY THE
HOLY SPIRIT
The Work Of The Ministry
▪Involves: people with
Reaching
the Gospel

24. Philip began as a deacon,
which means he was already
recognized for spiritual
maturity, and became an
evangelist. Maturity equipped
him to serve and serving
equipped him for specific
ministry.

25. If people are not serving and
have no desire to serve, it is
because they are not maturing.

26. Think: Babies don’t have
babies. Adults have babies.

27. “If I have to harangue you into
serving or being separated it is
not in your heart and either you
are not convinced by scripture,
you have not grasped the
scripture, or you have rebelled
against the scripture.”
- Pastor Hawkins

28. SPIRITUAL MATURITY
RESULTS IN AN EDIFIED
CHURCH

29. SPIRITUAL MATURITY
RESULTS IN A GROWNUP KNOWLEDGE OF THE
SON OF GOD

30. SPIRITUAL MATURITY
RESULTS IN CHRISTLIKENESS

31. SPIRITUAL MATURITY
RESULTS IN A GRASP OF
SOUND DOCTRINE
Who gets tossed to and
fro by every wind of
doctrine? Children

32. SPIRITUAL MATURITY
RESULTS IN SPEAKING
THE TRUTH IN LOVE

33. SPIRITUAL MATURITY
WORKS BECAUSE OF
CHRIST

34. CONCLUSION:
The pastor/teacher is to perfect
the saints for the work of the
ministry. The perfecting involves
two things:
Leading: a consistent
principle & pattern
Feeding: warning of the
false & teaching the truth