Your Reasonable Service

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Your Reasonable Service

• What can you do for your congregation?

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A Famous Quote for our Consideration

• ask not what your country can do for you - ask
  what you can do for your country John F.
  Kennedy

• John F. Kennedy knew that this country that we
  live in would not be great without the effort of
  the American people to make it so.

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Another Famous Quote for our Consideration

• I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the
  mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a
  living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God,
  which is your reasonable service. The apostle
  Paul (Romans 121 KJVR)

• The apostle Paul knew that we must make a great
  effort in our service to the Lord. Can you look
  at the church today and see the need for us to
  give a great effort?

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This Lesson is About

• Defining your responsibility
• Fellowship
• Worship
• Life
• Family
• Individual Leadership
• Self Improvement

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Responsibility In Its Simplest Form

• Doing what you know needs to be done
• Ecc 910 KJV Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do,
  do it with thy might for there is no work, nor
  device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave,
  whither thou goest.
• Colossians 323 KJV And whatsoever ye do, do it
  heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men
• James 417 KJV Therefore to him that knoweth to
  do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.
• Being irresponsible is a sin against yourself,
  those who need your help and God.

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Individual Leadership

• Qualities of Individual Leadership
• Taking command of your own life
• Taking the initiative to do things
• Seeing things through to the end
• Able to make decisions and live by them
• Willingness to hold yourself accountable
• The vision to see what need to be done
• Individual leadership is not about
• Having the ability to lead others
• Serving ourselves

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Before we go any further

• This lesson is designed to show the need for us
  to do things for the benefit of others (our
  responsibilities).
• Its not about how the congregation can benefit
  you. Its about how the things you can do
  benefit the congregation.

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Fellowship
Strong fellowship is a core factor of the success
of a congregation

• This congregation cannot be strong without a
  strong fellowship.
• Your effort is required to develop good
  fellowship.
• Its not about what fellowship can do for you.
  It is about what you can do to promote fellowship.

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Fellowship - Openness in Communication

• The ability to communicate openly and sincerely
  is key to success in any relationship.
• Many times people dont hear things from those
  they need to hear them from but from those they
  dont.

• Our Responsibility
• James 516 KJV Confess your faults one to
  another, and pray one for another, that ye may be
  healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a
  righteous man availeth much.
• Hebrews 1024 KJV And let us consider one
  another to provoke unto love and to good works
• How open are we with one another?

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Fellowship - Togetherness

• Being together
• 1 Thessalonians 511 KJV Wherefore comfort
  yourselves together, and edify one another, even
  as also ye do.
• Acts 244-47 KJV And all that believed were
  together, and had all things common (45) And
  sold their possessions and goods, and parted them
  to all men, as every man had need. (46) And
  they, continuing daily with one accord in the
  temple, and breaking bread from house to house,
  did eat their meat with gladness and singleness
  of heart, (47) Praising God, and having favor
  with all the people. And the Lord added to the
  church daily such as should be saved.
• Questions
• How much time do we spend with one another?
• How well do we know each other?
• What can you do to promote togetherness?

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Fellowship Prefer One Another

• What attitude should I have toward others?
• Romans 1210 KJVR Be kindly affectioned one to
  another with brotherly love in honor preferring
  one another
• Philippians 23-5 KJV Let nothing be done
  through strife or vainglory but in lowliness of
  mind let each esteem other better than
  themselves. (4) Look not every man on his own
  things, but every man also on the things of
  others. (5) Let this mind be in you, which was
  also in Christ Jesus
• Questions
• How concerned are we with others compared to
  ourselves?
• Are we willing to make sacrifices in our lives
  for the betterment of others?
• What things can you do that will help others?

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Responsibilities in Fellowship

• Take the initiative Dont wait for others to
  take the first step in building strong
  fellowship.
• Dont get your feelings hurt when something
  doesnt go your way. Your brothers and sisters
  dont intentionally do things to upset you.
• Be open with one another. If we approach one
  another in love, there is no reason to clam up.
• If someone has done something upsetting to you,
  take it up with the person instead of complaining
  to others about it.

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Responsibilities in Worship
The worship service is a key indicator of how the
congregation is doing.

• An edifying worship requires the effort of each
  person
• A worship service that is pleasing to God
  requires the effort of each person
• It not about what the worship service can do for
  you. Its about about what you can do for the
  worship service.

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Responsibilities in Worship

• Worship in Spirit and Truth
• John 424 KJV God is a Spirit and they that
  worship him must worship him in spirit and in
  truth.
• 1 Corinthians 1415 KJV What is it then? I will
  pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the
  understanding also I will sing with the spirit,
  and I will sing with the understanding also.
• 1 Corinthians 1440 KJV Let all things be done
  decently and in order.
• Whether leading or not, we have the
  responsibility to
• Be Prepared
• Be Focused
• Be in the right frame of mind

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Responsibilities in Worship

• Be Here
• Hebrews 1024-26 KJV And let us consider one
  another to provoke unto love and to good works
  (25) Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves
  together, as the manner of some is but exhorting
  one another and so much the more, as ye see the
  day approaching.
• Psalms 1221 KJV I was glad when they said unto
  me, Let us go into the house of the LORD.
• Why?
• You should be here to provoke others to good
  works.
• We need to be here and act like we enjoy being
  here to encourage each other.

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Responsibilities in Worship

• Make a commitment to be here!
• Be prepared, especially if you have an assigned
  duty.
• Be spirited in your worship. Doing so will have
  a positive impact on others as well as yourself.
  Give it your all!
• Dont stay up late the night before Sunday
  morning service.
• Be here on time
• Dont be afraid to make suggestions that will
  help the worship service.

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Responsibilities in Deed

• A kind word of encouragement
• 1 Thessalonians 514 KJV Now we exhort you,
  brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the
  feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward
  all men.
• Seeing peoples needs are met
• James 127 KJV Pure religion and undefiled
  before God and the Father is this, To visit the
  fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to
  keep himself unspotted from the world.
• Teaching our children
• Proverbs 226 KJV Train up a child in the way
  he should go and when he is old, he will not
  depart from it.

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ConclusionLet each one of us give thought to
what we can do to work for the good of the
congregation- In Fellowship- In Worship- In
Life

• Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then
  cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up
  your eyes, and look on the fields for they are
  white already to harvest.(John 435 KJV)