Improve Your Serve: Understanding Your Shape

As we look at ways to improve our serve, we need to see that in order to effectively serve, we must make sure that we’ve surrendered to Christ, and that we have a proper estimation of self.

In other words, we must first go deep before we can go long.

Watch the full Sunday service and message by Pastor Dennis Jacobson below.

SERMON TEXT

Romas 12:1-8 (ESV)

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned. For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function, so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another. Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, in proportion to our faith; if service, in our serving; the one who teaches, in his teaching; the one who exhorts, in his exhortation; the one who contributes, in generosity; the one who leads, with zeal; the one who does acts of mercy, with cheerfulness.

SERMON NOTES

Fully Express Surrender to God

• • Offer your body
  • Offer your mind
  • Offer your will

Cultivate a Proper Estimate of Ourselves

• • Discern who you are
  • Celebrate diversity
  • Recognize our dependency

Engage in Service

• • You will be fruitful
  • You will be fulfilled
  • The Church will be fortified

What would the Lord have you do today?

• • Commit to personal growth through fully expressing your surrender to God.
  • Commit to this local body through a proper estimate of yourself.
  • Commit to ministry by completely engaging in service.