2030 Servanthood

We are spiritual contributors, not just spiritual consumers.

We are very good at consuming and being served. Our mindset of being served even spills over to church.

Why is becoming a spiritual contributor so important?

1. Because it's not about you. Col 1:16; 2 Cor 5:15; Jn 6:26. Don't go after Jesus just because we want things from him. How do I view who Jesus is? Savior? Lord? Jesus as Lord reorients our lives.

2. Because God uses it to capture the hearts of others. Mt 5:16; 1 Pet 2:12. It's so easy to only focus on the dark parts of the world, instead of focusing on how bright the light can shine in the dark.

How do we move to bring a spiritual contributor?

1. We lean into the one who first served us. Mk 10:45

2. We jump in and start using our gifts. 1 Pet 4:10 use or gifts to serve others.

- How is your time in the Word?

- Do you have unrepentant sins?

- What is your community like?

- How are you serving others?

Our mission is to change the world, not fill a church. 

Jn 13:15 Jesus washes the disciples feet, he is a true servant and set an example for us.

This Is Us: We are spiritual contributors, not spiritual consumers

We are spiritual contributors, not just spiritual consumers.

We are very good at consuming and being served. Our mindset of being served even spills over to church.

Why is becoming a spiritual contributor so important?

1. Because it's not about you. Col 1:16; 2 Cor 5:15; Jn 6:26. Don't go after Jesus just because we want things from him. How do I view who Jesus is? Savior? Lord? Jesus as Lord reorients our lives.

2. Because God uses it to capture the hearts of others. Mt 5:16; 1 Pet 2:12. It's so easy to only focus on the dark parts of the world, instead of focusing on how bright the light can shine in the dark.

How do we move to bring a spiritual contributor?

1. We lean into the one who first served us. Mk 10:45

2. We jump in and start using our gifts. 1 Pet 4:10 use or gifts to serve others.

- How is your time in the Word?

- Do you have unrepentant sins?

- What is your community like?

- How are you serving others?

Our mission is to change the world, not fill a church. 

Jn 13:15 Jesus washes the disciples feet, he is a true servant and set an example for us.

2030 Hearing the Voice of God

Ex 3:1-4

God still speaks in our lives today.

Jn 10:27 "My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me."

1. We can be in relationship with God. Hearing the voice of God begins in a relationship with God.

2 We can know the voice of God. God wants to have a relationship with us and talk with us. How does this work?

- the Holy Spirit takes up residence in us. Jn 14:15-17, 25-26; 1 Cor 2:14

- the best way to know and hear God's voice is to get in the Word of God (for myself, not just from others), so I can mature. 1 Cor 3:1-2. God's voice always lines up with His Word. The more time I spend in God's word allowing God's voice to speak to me, the more my voice begins to sound like God's voice.

3. We can trust the voice of God. God knows us intimately. Ps 139

4. We must obey the voice of God. It may be scary at times, but He knows us and will only do things for our own good.

5. God whispers so we can shout!

2030 Who Will You Be?

1. Long term consistency is always better than short term intensity.

Heb 12:1-2 Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Endurance - steadfastness, perseverance, consistency. 

We overestimate what we can do in the short term, and underestimate what we can do in the long term.

2. The ways that I let in, are the ways that I am set in. Who I will be in 2030, will be an exaggerated version of who I am now. Allow God to change me. Time will not change who you are, it will only reveal who you are.

If you don't like where you are headed, you can change your direction. Start making different decisions now. "One gets to the place one wants to be the same way one got to the place one didn't want to be."