1. What you need to know about me. Go Cardinals!!!I really like LOST!I hate tomatoes!

2. MATT AND LEXI MYER

3. Have you met Ted???

4. Coming Spring 2016!!!!

5. Isaiah 55:8-9  “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord. “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts higher than your thoughts.”

6. The Model of Ministry  1 Corinthians 1:26- 2:5  Who God Uses to Communicate the Gospel?  Why God Uses Them?  How To Communicate the Gospel?

7. Matthew 28:18-19  “…All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit…

8. Matthew 28:20  …and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always to the very end of the age.”

9. The Model of Ministry  1 Corinthians 1:26-28  Who God chooses to use  “Foolish, weak, lowly, and despised.”  Humility is Key!

10. Proverbs 11:2  When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom.

11. James 4:10  Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.

12. The Model of Ministry  Why God chooses to use us  1 Corinthians 1:28-31  So that the people of God would have one boast!

13. 2 Corinthians 12:9  But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.

14. 2 Corinthians 12:10  That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

15. The Model of Ministry  Why God chooses to use us?  1 Corinthians 1:28-31  So that the people of God would have one boast!  True wisdom can be measured by the depth of a man’s character.

16. James 3:13  Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show it by his good life, by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom.

17. The Model of Ministry  How to communicate the Gospel?  1 Corinthians 2:1-5  Paul’s personal manner of effectively communicating the Gospel

18. The Ministry Model  1 Corinthians 2:1-2  Substance over Style  Testimony= What you see, hear, know. A personal story.  The work of the Holy Spirit.

19. The Ministry Model  1 Corinthians 2:3  Be in Awe, not Awesome  Fear, weakness, and trembling.  What is the heart you have when you present the Truth?

20. Psalm 34:7-9 The angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear him, and he delivers them. Taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed is the man who takes refuge in him. Fear the Lord, you his saints, for those who fear him lack nothing.

21. The Ministry Model  1 Corinthians 2:4-5  Evidence not Enticement  Persuade- to entice, bait  Demonstrate- show irrefutable evidence.

22. 1 Corinthians 6:9-10  Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes no homosexual offenders not thieves nor the greedy…

23. 1 Corinthians 6:10-11  …nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

24. Self-Evaluation  Have you truly made the Gospel story your story?  Are you boasting?