Destiny Church
Mission’s
Conference
“Light Your World”
Monday
Morning 1st Workshop
January
22, 2018
Closer to Change
Before
we get to the main topic this morning let’s review a few principles that will
serve to encourage all of us to be better able to minister the Gospel of
Christ.
·
Run to Win - Paul revealed his
approach to ministry in that he said he became all things to all people if by
any means he might win some to Christ.
1
Corinthians 9 NKJV
19
¶ For though I am free from all men,
I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win the more;
20 and to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I
might win Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law, that I
might win those who are under the law;
21 to those who are without law, as
without law (not being without law toward God, but under law toward Christ),
that I might win those who are without law;
22 to the weak I became as weak, that I might
win the weak. I have become all
things to all men, that I might by all means save some.
23 Now this I do for the gospel’s sake, that I
may be partaker of it with you.
24
¶ Do you not know that those who run in
a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may
obtain it.
·
Product
Driven
o It matters less what
we say than what people hear and take home.
o Identifiable Groups
Jesus Ministered to in the Gospels
§ 5000 Matthew 5,6 & 7
o Bless Me; Feed Me;
Heal Me
§ 70 John 6
o Hard sayings
o They turned and
walked with Him no more
§ 12 John 6
o Where would we go
o You have the words
of life
§ 3 Matthew 16
o Mount of
transfiguration
o Deeper in the garden
o Get behind me satan
§ 1 John 19
o Behold your son …
your mother
o Gave over the care
of His family
·
First
Grade Teachers Aren’t Stupid!
o It’s not that they
don’t know calculus, rather it’s that they have the good sense not to teach
calculus to first graders.
Now
for our lesson today, which is the very first lesson God taught us about Him
and how He and we should handle the problems we face in life.
Closer to Change …
Genesis 1 NKJV
1 In the beginning God
created the heavens and the earth.
2 The earth was without form,
and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of
God was hovering over the face of the waters.
3 Then God said, “Let there
be light”; and there was light.
The
first lessons God teaches us about Himself shows that He does not avoid
problems. It was His world, His creation, His possession but it needed help.
Like me,
·
The
world was without form and void and darkness covered the face of the deep!
·
The
Spirit of God came down and moved across the waters and God said … Let there be
light!
·
This
is a picture of the salvation offered to every man!
·
Jesus
came down and moved across our lives by His Holy Spirit and gave us the Light
of Life!
·
When
God has a problem … He gets closer in order to change it!
·
That’s
the first lesson God teaches us … we must be willing to get closer to the
problem and declare the Light of Life!
We
have to get closer to change anything from a flat tire to a hairdo … if we are
going to affect real change in the things we have, we must be willing to be
more like God and get closer.
Don’t
draw away from your problems or the things or even people who need to change.
Marriage, family, finances, friends and foes … get willing to get closer.
Question and
Discussion Time
