Service Teams part 2

This is the topic 2 of our series. I entitled the message SAVED PEOPLE, SERVE PEOPLE. This is to ignite the hearts of the people to go out of their way to fully serve, Christ, the local church and people. At the end I challenged the members to be volunteers of a specific service team available in our local church.

I started off by asking their choice of fast food resto and why they loved it. Then I started telling my story why I became a JOLLIBEE fan. Not because of the delicious food but because way back when I was seven or eight year old, one of my friends birthday at our Jollibee neighborhood , I fell in love with the Jollibee party girl, She's beautiful, cute, "hot"(hehe) and most of all she took care of me, served me and made me feel the most important seven-year old.  I became a JOLLIBEE fan because one person, went out of her way to serve me and made me feel special. (i hope I could tell the story the way I shared it on Sunday) podcast underconstruction. it will be out soon. My BIG ask, WHY IS IT WHEN IT COMES TO GOING ALL OUT TO SERVE WE ARE LOOKING AT THE FAST FOOD RESTO (AS OUR MODEL) AND NOT THE HOUSE OF GOD?

So I shared 4 things about Why and How  to serve and turned our Bibles to Luke 10:25-37, the Parable of the Good Samaritan as our text.

1. THERE IS ALWAYS AN OPPURTUNITY TO SERVE.
 v. ³⁰ In reply Jesus said: “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, when he was attacked by robbers. They stripped him of his clothes, beat him and went away, leaving him half dead.


There are thousand of people in the world that are beaten up and harrassed by the enemy. Every Christian always has an oppurtunity to serve. If you look around you there are seemingly endless opportunity to serve. In the local church, your concern must not be, am I needed or the slot is full. Your concern is, have I rendered service because there is always an oppurtunity to serve.


2. YOU ARE CALLED & GIFTED, EMPOWERED & EQUIPPED AND EXPECTED TO SERVE.
³¹ A priest happened to be going down the same road, and when he saw the man, he passed by on the other side. ³² So too, a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. 


In the story the most qualified people to help dint extend help. Let me tell you something if you are a Christian. You are called and gifted, equipped and empowered and expected to serve! Every Christian has the Holy Spirit and the Spirit gives the gift to every Christian for the common good and fo works of service. No Christian is not gifted, called or empowered to serve. We are called to serve. We are Christ hands,feet, eyes, and heart in this broken world.


3. SEE AS JESUS SEES. 
³³ But a Samaritan, as he traveled, came where the man was; and when he saw him, he took pity on him.


The only person in the story that see the broken man as Jesus sees was the Samaritan. He looked at hmi with pity. It means with compassion, with great concern, burden and love. We have to see our world as Jesus sees that we may gain a heart of compassion and concern for everyone.


Three ways the Samaritan was involved in the life of the robbed man:
a. Spiritual Involvement. Pour on oil (indicaie of the Holy Spirit) and wine (the blood of Jesus) Comfort and salvation.
b. Physical Involvement. He carried him to his donkey and brought him to the inn.The most evident form of involvement.action speaks louder than words. Dont claim your gifted or good at any thing. JUST TO DO IT and we will agree.
c. Material/Financial Involvement. He paid two denarii and paid for the full expense. real involvent goes involves the pocket!


We are called to involve in our local churches not to one of these three, nor the two out of three but to all of these.


4. SERVE BECAUSE JESUS COMMANDED TO DO SO.

³⁶ “Which of these three do you think was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of robbers? ³⁷ The expert in the law replied, “The one who had mercy on him.” Jesus told him, “Go and do likewise.”

A Christian is not a person who attends church. A Christian is a follower of Christ. One whose life is fully yielded and surrended to Christ. I've seen a lot of attenders in the church for many years yet they are not followers of Christ. If we are truly His follower we are under His Lordship and do what he commands of us. The Bible says, that Jesus came to serve and not to be served. So we ought to imitate that. Jesus is the servant of all.

What would start as an obligaton will eventually turn into a passion. I told my story about how I landed in ministry. How I first resisted it but eventually became so passionate about it!

If you are not yet involved in the local church service team, grab the form and sign up now!Because saved people, serve people!