Gifts + Passion + Serving= Success!
By now you have probably seen the ads around church for: Team Fitness! It was in this weeks addition of Chalk Talk and looks like this:
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Join TEAM FITNESS and get your LIFE in SHAPE!
Team Fitness is a new fitness program that includes strength training, cardiovascular programming, core-strengthening and nutritional education. Brian is a certified personal trainer and will help guide you on your way to fitness!
The group meets Tuesday and Thursday mornings (6-7am) from February 16th through April 22nd. Cost is $35 (covers supplies & equipment) and is limited to the first 20 participants to register.
Contact Brian at bminor@lff.com or 336-263-0744 for more information and to sign up.
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Here is the one simple thing I wanted to bring out about Team Fitness! I love the fact that Brian is using his Gifts (he is a certified trainer) and Passions (this is his job and he loves it) and then choosing to Serve at Team Church. He will not being getting paid….but he will be serving a spiritual need in our church.
Last year I gave a message about this called G.P.S…..and it did not mean Global Positioning System.
It means that people like Brian and people like you take the initiative to serve in a way that fits who God created you to be! This is what makes Team Church great. Volunteers who serve in their area of Gifts and Passions! It makes our church operate at a high level with high ownership of the mission and vision of this place. From musicians to window washers…..Team Church is exactly that….we are a Team! A group of people who are passionately devoted to God and radically devoted to each other and the mission of this church.
What are your Gifts and Passions? Where do you serve at Team Church? In 2010 don’t be a bench sitter who just basks in the efforts of others! One of the greatest joys in life is to KNOW you are being used by God for His Glory to impact other people’s lives in eternal ways.
1 Corinthians 12:4 (Bible Teaches About Team)
4 There are different kinds of spiritual gifts, but the same Spirit is the source of them all. 5 There are different kinds of service, but we serve the same Lord. 6 God works in different ways, but it is the same God who does the work in all of us.
7 A spiritual gift is given to each of us so we can help each other. 8 To one person the Spirit gives the ability to give wise advice; to another the same Spirit gives a message of special knowledge. 9 The same Spirit gives great faith to another, and to someone else the one Spirit gives the gift of healing. 10 He gives one person the power to perform miracles, and another the ability to prophesy. He gives someone else the ability to discern whether a message is from the Spirit of God or from another spirit. Still another person is given the ability to speak in unknown languages, while another is given the ability to interpret what is being said. 11 It is the one and only Spirit who distributes all these gifts. He alone decides which gift each person should have.
12 The human body has many parts, but the many parts make up one whole body. So it is with the body of Christ. 13 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.
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?
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.”
22 In fact, some parts of the body that seem weakest and least important are actually the most necessary. 23 And the parts we regard as less honorable are those we clothe with the greatest care. So we carefully protect those parts that should not be seen, 24 while the more honorable parts do not require this special care. So God has put the body together such that extra honor and care are given to those parts that have less dignity. 25 This makes for harmony among the members, so that all the members care for each other. 26 If one part suffers, all the parts suffer with it, and if one part is honored, all the parts are glad.
