Are you a Minister?
Restart Your Life
Group Questions
What do you want to remember about this past week?
When do you feel most useful?
Who has helped you in the past?
Text Questions
What ministry did God make you for?
Read Matthew 25:41-45
What stuck out to you?
What is the problem?
Read Ephesians 4:11-13
What stuck out to you?
What is the purpose of these leaders?
Read Matthew 25:35–36, 40
What stuck out to you?
How are we to minister to people’s physical needs?
What do we learn about these needs? Hunger,Thirst, Stranger, Clothe, Sick, Prison
Read 1 Thessalonians 5:14
What stuck out to you?
How are we to minister to people’s emotional needs?
Read 2 Corinthians 5:18
What stuck out to you?
How are we to minister to people’s spiritual needs?
Personal Questions
Do you know what your ministry is?
Are you actively ministering?
What ministry do you love?
Are you willing to serve sacrificially?
Application
Find out what you are shaped by God to do
Do a ministry that you love
Serve in a ministry that is a need at the church
Verses
Matthew 25:41-45
41 “Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. 42 For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, 43 I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.’
44 “They also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’
45 “He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’
Ephesians 4:11-13
11 So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers, 12 to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up 13 until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.
Matthew 25:35–36, 40
35 “‘For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat; I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink; I was a stranger and you took me in; 36 I was naked and you clothed me; I was sick and you took care of me; I was in prison and you visited me.’
40 “And the King will answer them, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’
1 Thessalonians 5:14
And we exhort you, brothers and sisters: warn those who are idle, comfort the discouraged, help the weak, be patient with everyone.
2 Corinthians 5:18
18 Everything is from God, who has reconciled us to himself through Christ and has given us the ministry of reconciliation.
