Calling Benefits of Serving

Calling

Benefits of Serving

 

Everybody wants benefits.

Find out what benefits God has for those who serve.

 

Everything we do should

have some type of benefit.

Benefits motivate us to productivity.

The Apostle Paul gives us a list of benefits

to those who do the “works of service.”

The Body of Christ gets built up;

people in the church are edified.

This edification speaks of a structure,

like a house that is built

all the way to the roof.

We serve each other from

the laying of the foundation to the roof.

The roof is completed

when we all reach the unity of the faith.

Our serving is focused on

increasing faith in one another’s lives.

Our faith can not grow without

an increase knowledge of Jesus Christ.

At the foundation, is a knowledge of Christ,

but as we grow together,

we come to know Him personally.

It is at this point,

we are able to hear God’s voice and

our faith and unity become established.

The signs of maturity become evident.

The most exciting benefit is,

we begin to look like the fullness of Jesus.

Note that you can not

fulfill the calling God has for you…

You can not reach

the purpose He has for you…

“ALONE”

Before the foundations of the world,

God’s purpose was

for you to be a part of a spiritual house.

Another way God describes our

purpose is found in a body.

Our purpose becomes more defined

as we realize alone,

we can not have the fullness of Christ.

As I understand my part with other Christians,

the fullness of Christ is developed.

As Jesus looks at His body today,

 He asks, “What is missing?”

I hope it is not you!

  

Walking worthy is serving with others

until we together look like

His hands and feet to our community.

 

Scripture Reading

Ephesians 4:7-13 NIV

7 But to each one of us grace has been given as Christ apportioned it.

8 This is why it says:

"When he ascended on high,

he led captives in his train

and gave gifts to men."  

9 (What does "he ascended" mean

except that he also descended to the lower, earthly regions?

10 He who descended is the very one

who ascended higher than all the heavens,

in order to fill the whole universe.)

11 It was he who gave

some to be apostles,

some to be prophets,

some to be evangelists,

and some to be pastors

and teachers,

12 to prepare God's people for works of service,

so that the body of Christ may be built up

13 until we all reach unity in the faith

and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature,

attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.

1 Peter 2:4-6 NIV

4 As you come to him, the living Stone

— rejected by men

but chosen by God and precious to him

— 5 you also, like living stones,

are being built into a spiritual house

to be a holy priesthood,

offering spiritual sacrifices

acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

1 Corinthians 12:12-14 NIV

12 The body is a unit,

though it is made up of many parts;

and though all its parts are many,

they form one body. So it is with Christ.

13 For we were all baptized by one Spirit into one body

— whether Jews or Greeks, slave or free

— and we were all given the one Spirit to drink.

14 Now the body is not made up of one part but of many.