Serving

Each of us is gifted to serve the kingdom of God and all we must to is step up and say yes! Serving the local church is essential in living into your calling as a follower of God. Serving Fully Alive | Week 2 | August 14, 2016 | Paul Phipps Ephesians 2:10 (NLT) For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. Ephesians 1:5 (NLT) God decided in advance to adopt us into his own family by bringing us to himself through Jesus Christ. This is what he wanted to do, and it gave him great pleasure. 1 Corinthians 12:12-13 (NLT) 12 The human body has many parts, but the many parts make up one whole body. So it is with the body of Christ. o13 Some of us are Jews, some are Gentiles, some are slaves, and some are free. But we have all been baptized into one body by one Spirit, and we all share the same Spirit. 1 Corinthians 12:14-17 (NLT) 14 Yes, the body has many different parts, not just one part. 15 If the foot says, “I am not a part of the body because I am not a hand,” that does not make it any less a part of the body. 16 And if the ear says, “I am not part of the body because I am not an eye,” would that make it any less a part of the body? 17 If the whole body were an eye, how would you hear? Or if your whole body were an ear, how would you smell anything? 1 Corinthians 12:18-21 (NLT) 18 But our bodies have many parts, and God has put each part just where he wants it. 19 How strange a body would be if it had only one part! 20 Yes, there are many parts, but only one body. 21 The eye can never say to the hand, “I don’t need you.” The head can’t say to the feet, “I don’t need you.” 1 Corinthians 12:26 (NLT) 26 If one part suffers, all the parts suffer with it, and if one part is honored, all the parts are glad.