How To MINISTER To Make A DIFFERENCE, Pt. 3

SERIES: BEING A GREAT PERSON FOR A GREAT GOD Acts 3:1-16; Selected Scriptures By D.Z. Cofield, Th.M., D. Min. October 9, 2022 Responsive Reading – James 2:14-26 (ESV) Leader: What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? Congregation: If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, Leader: and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that? Congregation: So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. Leader: But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works. Congregation: You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe— and shudder! Leader: Do you want to be shown, you foolish person, that faith apart from works is useless? Congregation: Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up his son Isaac on the altar? Leader: You see that faith was active along with his works, and faith was completed by his works; Congregation: and the Scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness”—and he was called a friend of God. Leader: You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone. Congregation: And in the same way was not also Rahab the prostitute justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out by another way? Together: For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead. How To MINISTER To Make A DIFFERENCE, Pt. 1 1. You need to realize to be used by The LORD you must make PRAYER your PRIORITY. 2. You need to realize The LORD wants to WORK through YOU to CHANGE lives. How To MINISTER To Make A DIFFERENCE, Pt. 2 1. You must believe a person’s LIFE will be better with JESUS than without JESUS. 2. You must make a COMMITMENT to let people WALK with YOU after you help them walk with Jesus. How To MINISTER To Make A DIFFERENCE, Pt. 3 1. You must give BENEVOLENCE to OTHERS. Acts 3:1-6 (ESV) – Now Peter and John were going up to the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour. 2 And a man lame from birth was being carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple that is called the Beautiful Gate to ask alms of those entering the temple. 3 Seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, he asked to receive alms. 4 And Peter directed his gaze at him, as did John, and said, “Look at us.” 5 And he fixed his attention on them, expecting to receive something from them. 6 But Peter said, “I have no silver and gold, but what I do have I give to you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk!” Acts 20:35 (ESV) – In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’ Romans 15:1-2 (ESV) – We who are strong have an obligation to bear with the failings of the weak, and not to please ourselves. 2 Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, to build him up. 2. You must give EMPOWERMENT to OTHERS. Acts 3:6-7 (ESV) – But Peter said, “I have no silver and gold, but what I do have I give to you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk!” 7 And he took him by the right hand and raised him up, and immediately his feet and ankles were made strong. James 2:14-18 (ESV) – What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save h...