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Introduction
It’s spring and soon we will be planting vegetable gardens.
Who plants vegetable gardens?
What do you plant?
Planting and successfully growing vegetables is on the one hand simple, and other the other hand very complex.
I want to end up with a some peppers and I am starting with this:
[pepper seeds photo]
And I want them to end up like this:
[pepper plant photo]
That’s where it gets complicated.
On the one hand it seems easy, just get some soil, a container, water, and light, right?
Those seem to be things we need but it’s really much more sophisticated than that.
When a pepper plant grow properly, these are all of the parts of the structure of the plant!
[pepper plant structure photo]
How in the world am I going to make all of that happen?
How do I make the roots, stem, leaves, flowers and ultimately the fruit, the pepper grow like that?
I’m not.
It’s going to grow all-by-itself.
But I have a part.
There are things I have to do so this happens.
I have to plan many things, when to plant, what to plant and where to plant.
I have to set aside time to do everything I need to do and commit to spending regular.
We can compare this to the way the church grows.
We have a role.
Today we’re going to look at the effective structures that need to be present for a church to grow.
These are the structural elements of ministry.
Let’s begin with
The Plan
We have to have a plan!
Our shared vision Proverbs 29:18, Matthew 28:18-20
There are many quotes about the dangers of not having a plan.
“A goal without a plan is just a wish.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, writer and pioneering aviator
“If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else.” ― Yogi Berra, former New York Yankees catcher
“Always plan ahead.
It wasn’t raining when Noah built the ark.” ― Richard Cushing, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church
The good news is we have a plan!
It is a shared plan that God gave us.
It is to fulfill the great commission.
The elements of the plan are simple.
Evangelize
Baptize
Teach
We have a good start.
Let’s take that plan and apply it to us here in this room today.
The Purpose
There are different terms used to express this.
Our master plan is what God wants us to do.
Our purpose is the unique aspect of our mission here as a church in Mundelein, IL.
We say what our mission is every week.
What is it?
Our Unique Mission: To connect people with God and others.
Galatians 4:8; 1 John 4:7; Matthew 22:19; Joshua 24:31; Mark 4:19-20
This is how we believe God wants us to accomplish His plan.
In order to connect with God you have . . .
To know God Galatians 4:8; 1 John 4:7
To know God means to know He loves us, sent His Son to die for us and has made us a part of His family by believing that.
There is another element of knowing God that is different from that.
It is . . .
To know His power Matthew 22:19; Joshua 24:31
To know God’s power means we know what He can do because we have experienced it.
I know God can provide for my needs when I can’t possibly imagine how!
I know God can . . . .
It is wonderful to know God and to know His power.
But this isn’t just a blessing for us to keep in a box hidden in our closet.
That isn’t why God made Himself known to us.
It is for us to enjoy and benefit from but it is also for us to share.
And the unique thing about us is that God wants us . . .
To share God in our community Mark 5:19-20
God doesn’t want you to share the good news in Sao Paulo, Brazil, at least not today or unless you are watching this service from there.
Part of the structure of God’s plan is the where.
I live in Lake Zurich and am part of Longmeadow Community Church in Mundelein, IL because this is where God put me, and you!
Jesus healed a man who was demonized.
The man trusted in Jesus and wanted to go with him.
Here’s what Jesus said to him,
That is the same thing Jesus is saying to you and me.
Share the good news with those in your life.
Your family, neighbors and coworkers.
This leads us to the third element of the an effective structure of ministry.
The People
Let dig a bit deeper into
Our roles and responsibilities 1 Peter 2:4,5,9; Revelation 1:6; 1 Corinthians 12;7; Romans 12:3-8
First we all have
Shared position: priesthood of believers
A priest is: “a minister of any religion—true or false, good or evil—who is given authority to teach the sacred information and perform the sacred duties to preserve and bring that faith to others.”
https://www.gotquestions.org/what-is-a-priest.html
A priest is a minister.
With that in mind consider these verses:
Being a priest means
you have direct access to God
you represent God to those who don’t know Him.
you serve God as a priest
God prepared you and me for service by giving us a supernatural ability to serve Him.
This is through
2. Shared enablement: spiritual gifts
I had an entire message on this a couple of weeks ago so I only want to highlight that an effective structure of ministry includes people using their gifts.
The gifts differ, but the overall function of all gifts is the same.
We have
3. Shared roles: service
We have a plan, a purpose and people.
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