1. Purpose Driven Life Rick Warren
Servanthood
Purpose Driven Life
Rick Warren

2. What is Ministry? Preaching Missionary Evangelist Nun ????? 5/21/2019
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3. What does the Bible say? Read II Corinthians 3:6
“He has made us ministers of a new covenant”
We are all called to be a “minister”
Read II Corinthians 4:1 and 7
Our treasure in this body is to share to the love of Jesus
We are “saved to serve”
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4. Where do you serve? Find your S.H.A.P.E. Spiritual Gifts Heart
Abilities
Personality
Experiences
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5. Spiritual Gifts
God gave you special abilities that are meant for use in building up our church family and for reaching out to the world with Christ's love.
Preaching, Evangelism, Missions, Apostle
Teaching, Encouragement, Wisdom, Discernment, Knowledge
Service, Mercy, Hospitality, Pastoring, Giving
Music, Arts and Crafts, Intercession, Healing, Miracles
Leadership, Administration, Faith
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6. Heart
God gave you unique passion for particular activities, subjects and circumstances. He gave you a heart for the things you feel deeply about to help you define how and where He wants you to serve Him.
Children, Adults, Married people, Single people, Elderly, Teenagers,
Overseas missions, inner city missions, etc
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7. Abilities You have abilities that you can use in specific ways
Vocational skills
Carpentry, Mechanic, Brick Laying, Farming, etc
Natural Abilities
Art, Music, Singing
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8. Personality God wants your personality in ministry!
Extroverted/Introverted - Do we get energy from being with people or being alone?
Thinker/Feeler - how do we make decisions, using objective facts or intuition?
What kind of tasks do we prefer - routine (predictable) or variety?
Self-controlled/self-expressive - are we more open or controlled in our moods, words and reactions.
Relating to other people - are we more cooperative or competitive?
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9. Experiences
God has placed a multitude of experiences in your life to help mold you for ministry. He can, and will, use the experiences in your background to help heal the hurts of others in His church and in your community
Up-bringing, diseases, family struggles, inner struggles
Anything and everything you are willing to give!
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10. Get Plugged In Best way to find your SHAPE is to experiment.
Go on a mission trip
Volunteer for a committee
Sing in the choir
Pass out bulletins
Cook a meal
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11. Servanthood Begins in your heart.
If you do not want to serve check your heart.
Read I Corinthians 12:27- 31
Eagerly desire spiritual gifts.
Read I Corinthians 13
Love…….the greatest is love.
Serve with LOVE
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