Clarifying Our Vision - Contribute

Teaching this week is Brian Manns. This week Brian is teaching on the third step in our process of making disciples: Contribute.

Focus
Contribute is the third step in the disciple making process at First Baptist Church. Contribute involves discerning your spiritual gifts and finding a place of service. Your spiritual gifts play a huge role in this step because if you’re in a place of service that doesn’t match your gifts or personality you won’t feel comfortable doing it. We serve the Lord because we have some very explicit commands in scripture to do so. Serving comes from an outflow of your heart. When you realize how the Lord has done for you, you realize how much we can do for Him.

Quote
Jesus is the perfect example of a servant. Though he is God he didn’t cling to his rights as God but took the place of a servant. If we have been born again our attitude should be that of Jesus. We shouldn’t try to always get and never give. Rather we should ask ourselves, am I doing the will of my Father in Heaven? The best way to bring glory to God is to use the gifts that He has given you to serve Him with a loving and thankful heart.

Key Scripture
Matthew 20:26-28, Matthew 23:11-12, John 12:26, Ephesians 4:11-12, James 2:14-26

Respond
1.What purpose does it serve to serve Christ?
2.What should be the attitude of our heart that would prompt us to serve?
3.What does Jesus mean in Matthew 20:26 where he says “it should not be this way among you”?
4.Why do we have to follow Jesus in all areas of life to serve him?
John 12:26
5.Why does it matter what our spiritual gifts are if we are serving the Lord? Ephesians 4:11-12
6.What does faith without works have to do with serving God?
James 2:26