Improve Your Serve: Using What God Has Given You

As we’ve been focusing on some ways that we can improve our serve, I want to suggest this morning that it’s possible to get so caught up in what we call our spiritual gifts that we might not survive servanthood.

The key is not so much to identify what we have… but to use what we’ve been given.

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

SERMON TEXT

1 Peter 4:10-11 (ESV)

As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God’s varied grace: whoever speaks, as one who speaks oracles of God; whoever serves, as one who serves by the strength that God supplies—in order that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.

2 Timothy 4:7-8 (ESV)

I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me on that day, and not only to me but also to all who have loved his appearing.

SERMON NOTES

Seven Stewardship Lessons

• • What we have is not ours
  • We’re given what we can handle
  • We must invest what we’ve been given

A day of accountability is coming

• • What we do with what we have reveals our view of God
  • We must use what we have, or we will lose it
  • Who you know and what you do will make a difference

The Rewards of Serving

• • The Imperishable Crown
  • The Crown of Exultation
  • The Crown of Righteousness
  • The Crown of Life
  • The Crown of Glory

What are we going to do with our crowns? Will you have any crowns?