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New Vision New Year
TEAMWORK TO MAKE THE
DREAM WORK
1 Corinthians 12:25-27Message Four
Thesis
When it comes to our new vision for the
New Year, it will take teamwork to make
this dream work.
WHAT MAKES TEAM BUILDING SO HARD
1. One of the greatest challenges to us becoming a team in God’s work is communication
WHAT MAKES TEAM BUILDING SO HARD
1. One of the greatest challenges to us becoming a team in God’s work is communication
2. Another struggle in becoming a team in God’s work is conflict
WHAT MAKES TEAM BUILDING SO HARD
3. Another hindrance in becoming a team in God’s work is a spirit of competition
Eph. 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of
this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
TEAM!
T—Together
E—Everyone
A—Accomplishes
M—Ministry
A team is a combined unit of every member fulfilling their role together to get God’s job done, and it is the cumulative, combination of everyone’s gifts that makes the mission a success.
Definition:
Anyone who works for the expansion of the kingdom of God and the growth of our church plays a role in making the body in this building what God created it to be.
Point One
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Definition:
Spiritual gifts are divine enablements distributed by the Holy Spirit to every believer according to how they are functioning in the likeness of Christ, for the common good of the body of Christ.
What God requires of us is to use our gifts to build up the team that is called Christ’s body, so that as a team we can achieve the dream of getting the gospel to our community.
Point Two
HOW TO ACHIEVE THE DREAM AS A TEAM
1. When we tell the same message, 1Cor 12:5-8; John 12:32
HOW TO ACHIEVE THE DREAM AS A TEAM
1. When we tell the same message
2. When we exercise the same ministry, 1 Cor 12:25
Our internal ministry is how
we prove we’re in love, yet we also
have the same external ministry,
to be salt and light to the lost.
Point Three
HOW TO ACHIEVE THE DREAM AS A TEAM
3. When we follow the same mission, Matt 28:19-20
Matt. 28:19-20 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the
Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded
you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.
If you are not trying to reach someone through your testimony, we are not achieving the mission of the kingdom of God.
Point Four
The greatest lie the Enemy is using to destroy your witness is not a demon saying don’t do it, but someone saying don’t do it now.
Point Five
HOW TO ACHIEVE THE DREAM AS A TEAM
4. When we are compelled by the same motive, 1Tim 3:15; Eph 3:20-21,10; 1 Cor 10:31; Matt 5:16
1 Tim. 3:15 But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar
and ground of the truth.
1 Cor. 10:31 Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do,
do all to the glory of God. Matt. 5:16 Let your light so shine
before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your
Father which is in heaven.
Your life is to enable you to testify, and as you testify to the glory of God, you insert the gospel as your witness.
Point Six
HOW TO ACHIEVE THE DREAM AS A TEAM
5. When we are obeying the same master, 1 Pet 2:21; Rom 8:3-6,9
1 Pet. 2:21 For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an
example, that ye should follow his steps:
The Greek says he has left us a ὑπογραμμός (hupŏgrammŏs, example), from which we get our
English word, grammar.
AN ALTERNATE ROUTE
TO RIGHT LIVINGA. Jesus Christ is our
template, and we are to place our lives on top of his life and trace his example in our experience
AN ALTERNATE ROUTE
TO RIGHT LIVINGB. The Holy Spirit is our
filling, and we are to walk in the Spirit by minding the Spirit in our experience
John 14:12 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater
works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.
Rom. 8:11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal
bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
What is needed in our day is not a new definition of the gospel, but a new demonstration to those who are lost.
Point Seven
New Vision New Year
Come Forward for Prayer