Ministry Service: From Obligations to Opportunities
While guilt or pressure can be successful motivators to get us to serve, we ought to minister to others in line with our giftings and passions. In those meaningful positions, those obligations turn into opportunities.
Author
Travis Agnew
Lead Pastor
Ministry
Ministry Service: From Obligations to Opportunities
While guilt or pressure can be successful motivators to get us to serve, we ought to minister to others in line with our giftings and passions. In those meaningful positions, those obligations turn into opportunities.
Travis Agnew
Lead Pastor
Obligations
- People expect their churches to have quality ministries but are unwilling to volunteer to make them happen.
- Churches have volunteer problems due to issues of apathy, busyness, and compatibility.
- Your spiritual boredom may be because you aren’t doing what you were saved to do.
Scripture (1 Corinthians 12:4-7)
- “The eternal triune God reveals Himself to us as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, with distinct personal attributes, but without division of nature, essence, or being” (BF&M 2000).
- Just as we hold unity yet distinction within the triune God, we find something similar in how the Church is gifted.
- The Spirit gives us varied gifts of grace that are more than talents or abilities (12:4).
- The Son provides us different ways to serve so that others can know Him (12:5).
- The Father supplies the power to make our efforts effective for His priorities (12:6).
- The Body of Christ should be better off because you are doing your God-given part (12:7).
Opportunities
- If you align your spiritual gifts with a passionate cause, you will be amazed at what God will do through you.
- Many of us will never have a part in an incredible work of God because we have extended ourselves for lesser endeavors.
- Attempting to minister outside of how you are gifted will frustrate yourself and others.
- Don’t waste your life on temporal pursuits when you’ve been built to effect eternal matters.
