Revisiting Our Core Values:

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Revisiting Our Core Values
Part 3

• COMMITTED TO EQUIP LEADERS

Core Value Actively teach, equip and nurture
leaders and church workers.
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Ephesians 47-13

• 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."

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Ephesians 47-13

• 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.)

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Ephesians 47-13

• 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

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Ephesians 47-13

• 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.

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• Old Testament
• -preserve His people from famine
• -deliver His people from the bondage of slavery
• -inspire His people about worship

New Testament -built the foundation of the
church in Jesus Christ -saturate the known
Gentile world with the Gospel
Joseph
Apostles
Moses
Paul
David
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How We Can be Involved

• DISCOVER YOUR PLACE OF LEADERSHIP

Ephesians 47 7) But to each one of us grace has
been given as Christ apportioned it.
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What are spiritual gifts?

• the skill or ability that enables each Christian
  to perform a function in the body of Christ with
  ease and effectiveness
• (He Gave Gifts- by Charles R. Swindoll,)

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How We Can be Involved

• DISCOVER YOUR PLACE OF LEADERSHIP
• A. Individuality (v.7)
• -every believer without exceptions has
  a special part to perform based on the skill or
  ability that God has given him or her.

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How We Can be Involved

• DISCOVER YOUR PLACE OF LEADERSHIP
• A. Individuality (v.7)
• -every believer without exceptions has
  a special part to perform based on the skill or
  ability that God has given him or her.

Ephesians 47 7) But to each one of us grace has
been given as Christ apportioned it.
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How We Can be Involved

• DISCOVER YOUR PLACE OF LEADERSHIP
• A. Individuality (v.7)
• B. Accountability

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Matthew 2520-21

• 20) The man who had received the five talents
  brought the other five. 'Master,' he said, 'you
  entrusted me with five talents. See, I have
  gained five more.'
• 21) "His master replied, 'Well done, good and
  faithful servant! You have been faithful with a
  few things I will put you in charge of many
  things. Come and share your master's happiness!'

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How We Can be Involved

• DISCOVER YOUR PLACE OF LEADERSHIP
• A. Individuality (v.7)
• B. Accountability
• C. Diversity (v.11)

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Ephesians 411

• 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,

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How We Can be Involved

• DESIRE YOUR PLACE OF LEADERSHIP
• A. Individuality (v.7)
• B. Accountability
• C. Diversity (v.11)
• D. Mutuality (vv.12-13)

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How We Can be Involved

• DISCOVER YOUR PLACE OF LEADERSHIP
• 1 Timothy 31
• 1) Here is a trustworthy saying If anyone sets
  his heart on being an overseer, he desires a
  noble task.

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How We Can be Involved

• DISCOVER YOUR PLACE OF LEADERSHIP
• 2 Corinthians 418
• 18) So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but
  on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary,
  but what is unseen is eternal.

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1 John 215-17

• 15) Do not love the world or anything in the
  world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the
  Father is not in him.
• 16) For everything in the world--the cravings of
  sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting
  of what he has and does--comes not from the
  Father but from the world.
• 17) The world and its desires pass away, but the
  man who does the will of God lives forever.

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How We Can be Involved

• DISCOVER YOUR PLACE OF LEADERSHIP
• DISCOVER YOUR PLACE OF LEADERSHIP
• DEDICATE YOUR PLACE OF LEADERSHIP

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1 Timothy 32-7

• Now the overseer must be above reproach,
  the husband of but one wife, temperate,
  self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to
  teach, not given to drunkenness, not violent but
  gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money. He
  must manage his own family well and see that his
  children obey him with proper respect. (If anyone
  does not know how to manage his own family, how
  can he take care of God's church?) He must not be
  a recent convert, or he may become conceited and
  fall under the same judgment as the devil. He
  must also have a good reputation with outsiders,
  so that he will not fall into disgrace and into
  the devil's trap.

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1 Corinthians1558

• 58) Therefore, my dear brothers, stand firm. Let
  nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to
  the work of the Lord, because you know that your
  labor in the Lord is not in vain.