People Are Valuable Principle #1: Engage your community & culture Jesus Is Most Valuable Principle #2: Establish believers in the foundation of Christ

People Are ValuablePrinciple #1: Engage your community & culture

Jesus Is Most ValuablePrinciple #2: Establish believers in the

foundation of Christ

Ministry Is Valuable

Every Day Is Valuable

What on Earth Are You Doing?Matthew 6:21-25

Ministry Is Valuable Principle #3: Equip all believers to minister

Discipleship means it is not enough to establish believers in the foundation of Christ.

Discipleship also demands that believers be equipped to become effective ministers.

Equipping disciples means to give them the competence and the confidence to do the work of ministry.


Ministry Is Valuable katartizo – preparing or equipping; literally

pictures a transformation from brokenness to wholeness, from ineffectiveness to usefulness – Matt. 4:18-19


Matthew 4:18-19 (NASB)18 Now as Jesus was walking by the Sea of

Galilee, He saw two brothers, Simon who was called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea; for they were fishermen.

19 And He *said to them, “Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men.”

Ministry Is Valuable katartizo – preparing or equipping; literally

pictures a transformation from brokenness to wholeness, from ineffectiveness to usefulness – Matt. 4:18-19 Following Jesus (as you are in …) Fellowship with other believers (as they …) Fish for people (in general) together!


Ministry Is Valuable Casting and hauling the net

Fishing to Jesus was a net and not a pole Net fishing cannot be done alone It requires at least one other person – Mark 1:16


Mark 1:16 (NASB)16 As He was going along by the Sea of

Galilee, He saw Simon and Andrew, the brother of Simon, casting a net in the sea; for they were fishermen


Fishing to Jesus was a net and not a pole Net fishing cannot be done alone It requires at least one other person – Mark 1:16 Luke 5:4-7 tells us two things:


Luke 5:4-7 (NASB)4 When He had finished speaking, He said to

Simon, “Put out into the deep water and let down your nets for a catch.”

5 Simon answered and said, “Master, we worked hard all night and caught nothing, but I will do as You say and let down the nets.”

6 When they had done this, they enclosed a great quantity of fish, and their nets began to break;

7 so they signaled to their partners in the other boat for them to come and help them. And they came and filled both of the boats, so that they began to sink.


Fishing to Jesus was a net and not a pole Net fishing cannot be done alone It requires at least one other person – Mark 1:16 Luke 5:4-7 tells us two things:

1. Nets have to be deliberately let down into the sea of humanity (not kept in the boat or on the beach)

2. Net fishing needs partners! We need to be trained and equipped in

partnership with others (small groups)


Ministry Is Valuable Equipping disciples in ministry is born out of

discipline – 2 Timothy 1:7


2 Timothy 1:7 (NASB)7 For God has not given us a spirit

of timidity, but of power and love and discipline

Ministry Is Valuable Equipping disciples in ministry is born out of

discipline – 2 Timothy 1:7 Discipline is born out of relationship! Discipline spurs us on to growth over weakness Discipline creates accountability Discipline allows us to temper the weakness of

the flesh by obeying because we love God and value what He values while making sure we do not succumb to legalism and wrong theology


Every Day Is Valuable Jesus gives us three pairs of contrasting

universal values in Matthew 6:21-25


Matthew 6:21-25 (NASB)21 for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.22 “The eye is the lamp of the body; so then if your eye is

clear, your whole body will be full of light. 23 But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of

darkness. If then the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

24 “No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.

25 “For this reason I say to you, do not be worried about your life, as to what you will eat or what you will drink; nor for your body, as to what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?

Every Day Is Valuable Jesus gives us three pairs of contrasting

universal values in Matthew 6:21-25 God and money Life and food Body and clothes

Why these three pairs? Because in each pair there is one that is

infinitely more valuable!


Every Day Is Valuable Values can only be esteemed when they

are measured against a standard That standard is God!

Psuche – that which has breath, spirit Psuche – Life is about living, moving, and

having our being. Life means to have hope. Soma – literally, our physical bodies Soma – 1 Corinthians 6:19-20


1 Corinthians 6:19-20 (NASB)19 Or do you not know that your body is a

temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own?

20 For you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body.

Every Day Is Valuable Principle #4: Empower all believers to

make disciples (“as we go”) Jesus gave us the gift of the Holy Spirit Money is the answer to everything! Eccles.

10:19


Ecclesiastes 10:19 (NASB)19 Men prepare a meal for enjoyment,

and wine makes life merry, and money is the answer to everything.

Every Day Is Valuable Principle #4: Empower all believers to make

disciples (“as we go”) Jesus gave us the gift of the Holy Spirit. Money is the answer to everything! Eccles. 10:19 Food is not only a base need, but a pleasure that we use

to build relationships. It is our enjoyment. Clothes represents goods, products, and services. They

represent the value of excellence. All of these are to be used to develop relationships that

lead to discipleship.


People Are ValuablePrinciple #1: Engage your community and culture

Jesus Is Most ValuablePrinciple #2: Establish believers in the foundation of Christ

Ministry Is ValuablePrinciple #3: Equip all believers to minister

Every Day Is ValuablePrinciple #4: Empower all believers to make

disciples

What on Earth Are You Doing?

ApplicationAre you actively engaging your community and culture?

Are you actively helping to establish believers in the foundation of Christ?

Are you actively equipping believers to do ministry?

Are you actively empowering believers to make disciples?


Application

Are you being salt and light in a lost and dying community through your growing

relationship with God and others in mentoring and small group relationships?


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People Are Valuable Principle #1: Engage your community & culture Jesus Is Most Valuable Principle #2: Establish believers in the foundation of Christ