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*PHILOSOPHY OF MINISTRY*
*EPH 4:7-16*
*941.doc*
*(consider using The Message version in addition to NIV)*
*INTRODUCTION*
1.
Last week we discovered that God calls us to salvation for service.
God desires each person to know him personally.
When we accept Christ as our savior, we also accept His call to service.
Every Christian is a minister.
Each of you has a ministry.
God has designed the church to be an institute for training so each Christian can be involved in the ministry that God called them to do.
God provides the church with pastor-teachers who has the job of preparing God’s people for this work.
2.
We saw that our relationship as pastor and God’s people is like that of a coach and his team or a conductor and her orchestra.
We discovered each of us has a different role to play in the church.
We are all equal.
There are no 2nd class citizens.
Our roles are different but our value is the same.
We all matter to God.
We all have an essential job to do so that God’s kingdom’s grows bigger and stronger.
3.
Tonight let’s discover 2 more things.
1) Our commission is to build up the church until we are reach unity and maturity.
2) God made each of us competent for the ministry he has call us to do through spiritual gifts.
By giving each of us a spiritual gift, God has taken the worry and excuses out of serving him.
*I.
OUR COMMISSION*
*A.
UNITY IN FAITH~/KNOWLEDGE: doctrinal*
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We answer God’s call to salvation for service.
We come together in a faith community and work together as team.
What for?
What’s are commission?
What are we supposed to accomplish? Football teams and their coaches work together to win ball games.
Orchestras and directors work together to produce beautiful music.
Pastors and God’s people work together to build up the body of Christ.
God commissions us to build up his body, the church.
The method God uses to build the church is us working together.
The results are that the Church becomes *bigger and stronger.*
Building up the church means growth.
Paul identifies the growth in v 13-16.
Growth comes in two areas: unity and maturity.
2.
Notice the first word in v 13—until.
This tells us how long we to continue our works of service.
How long are we to work together?
Until we all unified and mature.
In practical terms, that means God has no retirement plan this side of heaven.
Until doesn’t mean we work in God’s kingdom for 20-30 years and then retire.
We serve God until we draw our last breath.
3.
In v 1-6, Paul talks about 2 kinds of unity.
In v 4-6, he talks about *doctrinally *unity.
At the core of this unity is our faith in Jesus Christ.
That’s what makes us family.
All Christians are brothers and sisters.
It doesn’t make any difference what culture we from, what social-economic background, what color our skin, what denomination we belong to or any other exterior characteristic.
If we know Christ as our personal Savior through faith then we are one in Christ.
We share basic beliefs.
The question is: *How can two people who are both loyal to Christ be opposed to one another?*
4.
Do we have any work to do here?
Having worked in an interdenominational environment as a chaplain, I can tell you we Baptists don’t have the best reputation for being united.
Our current state and national convention do nothing to convince people otherwise.
Most church conflicts have little to do with theological beliefs.
That’s also true between most mainline denominations.
When you compare the core doctrine of most Protestant denominations, you’ll find far more similarities than differences.
Most of the differences between denominations revolve around church organizational structure rather than doctrine.
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The unity called for here protects us from what I call denominational pride.
That is the idea any group has the exclusive right to God. I’ve got it and sorry about you.
When we were getting ready to go to SW, my mother-in-law was deeply concerned about our standing with God.
Her missionary Baptist pastor has some real doubts if we were going to heaven.
If we were, we’d just get our feet in the door.
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Paul’s goal for unity reminds us-we are all on the same side.
One faith, one Lord, one hope is what unites us.
So what if you wear a robe and I don’t or if I use a piano and you sing acapella.
Those are not dividing issues.
What is critical is do you believe in Jesus by faith and faith alone.
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Prayerfully we gathered here at First, Roanoke share doctrinally unity—at least on the issues that determine our eternal destiny.
Our BFM establishes our basic beliefs that should unify us around the cause of Christ.
*B.
UNITY: LOVING ATTITUDE*
1. V 1-3 outlines another unity we are to attain.
Paul talks about a unity of a loving attitude toward each other.
We are to be humble, gentle, patient, bearing with one another in love, peaceable.
We are to get along with each other.
Surely, the first application is the Christian community in its relationship to each other.
*Christians are to get along with other Christians.*
Wouldn’t that be wonderful if we responded to each other like that?
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This unity highlights the spirit of *cooperation*.
It counters envy, jealousy and the other cankers that eat away out the heart of our witness.
If we don’t care who gets the credit, we can get a lot more done for the kingdom of God than we do.
The Kingdom is larger than FBC, Roanoke or DBA or BGCT or SBC.
Let’s remember that God’s people come in all shapes and sizes.
When we get this global perspective of God’s work then we can embrace more a loving attitude and spirit of cooperation.
There will be greater unity.
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What are some impacts of *disunity?*
What is the fallout when Christians fight Christians? Surely our witness and message are greatly weakened.
We become suspect to the unbelieving world and disappointment to fellow Christians.
Both groups are turned off.
Christians fall by the wayside and unbelievers are hardened.
I began visiting all the members of the church in Mo immediately upon arrival as I am doing here.
I went to one member’s home.
I had not seen her in church.
She explained she didn’t go anymore.
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