Filling Vacancies Or Developing Servants

As our church grows, we are already seeing that we have lots of places where people can serve. We also have lots of people that are willing to serve, they just haven't found that sweet spot yet where they can serve. There are also people that simply do not understand service grows out of love for the Lord. They don't understand this YET anyway.

At The Point, it will be difficult for a person just to sit and soak and never serve. We simply love people too much to let God's people be content with merely hearing the Word. We want to be be good stewards of the people that God sends our way be developing fully devoted followers. What does a fully devoted follower of Jesus look like? They are servants who worship and worshippers who serve.

The Gospel of Luke recounts an encounter that Jesus had with Mary and Martha, two sisters who loved the Lord in two very different ways. Jesus was in the home of Martha, so she was in the kitchen busy preparing a meal for her Lord. Her sister Mary was sitting at the feet of Jesus listening to Him. Martha became angry with Mary, saying that she too should be in the kitchen preparing the meal. But Jesus corrected the critical Martha saying that she was too worried and stressed and that Mary was fine doing what she was doing. Later in their life though, we find both of them serving. Mary is with Jesus again, but now she is working by washing the feet of the Master just a few days before His crucifixion.

Here's the point: They both served Him in different ways. Mary's service grew out of her worship of Him. Martha's worship grew out of her service to Him.

Worship must precede service. Worship produces service. It's a beautiful cycle. A worshipper is a servant because a servant is a worshipper.

In order to grow a church of servants, we must be a church of worshippers. The problem in most churches is that worship is self seeking and self serving. So, worship that does not produce work is shallow, superficial and self-serving. At The Point, there is a church developing where this cycle is beginning to come about. We need servants....that means we develop worshippers. It's really as simple as...those who love The Lord (worship) will work in His church that He loves (service). We say: "we need more workers in the nursery, youth or outreach" What we should say: "we need people who love Jesus and want to serve Him".

We DO need people to sign up and serve in the nursery during Sunday worship. If enough servants do this, then it will only be a very few times a year that each person would serve in the nursery. This is such a deserving ministry of our time and effort. It requires no experience or giftedness, just a willing heart.

Another place where you can serve is on a building clean up team. Each month a different team will have the responsibility of cleaning and preparing the building each week.

I am asking EVERY MEMBER to serve in one (or both) of these two areas for the next year.

There is a saying that we have at The Point: "If you sit and soak and never serve, you will sour. But if you sit, soak and serve...you will SOAR!"

YOU are loved!

Pastor Rick