Go to church to serve not to get | Rapp Report Daily 0124 | Striving for Eternity
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- Welcome to The Rapid Bull, daily edition, where we provide a quick biblical interpretations and applications.
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- This is a ministry of striving for eternity. There are so many differences that people look for when it comes to trying to find a good church.
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- There's differences with the size of the church. Some people like a larger church. Some people like that smaller gathering where they get to know everybody.
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- There's going to be some churches where they're going to have lots of programs for all ages, some that have very few.
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- Smaller churches tend to have fewer programs. So what you end up seeing is that every church is going to be unique.
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- And the question we must ask when trying to find a church is, what gifts has God given me?
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- Why? Because we have to remember that when you enter into the body of Christ, into a church,
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- God is specifically putting you there so that you can serve that body of believers.
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- He's gifted you uniquely, and that's just like every church is going to be unique. Every person in the church is uniquely put there by Christ for the purpose of serving the body.
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- So the best thing to do when trying to find a church to go to is ask yourself, how has
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- God gifted me and how can I serve this body of believers? Because that's going to help.
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- You may be gifted in a way that would help a church more than one church versus another.
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- And that is one of the things to look for. Look for the church. Don't look at what it can do for you.
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- But be looking at what you can do for the body of Christ there assembled. I'm going to tell you from personal experience.
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- There was a church I stayed in for two years even though I disagreed with the leadership and some of the doctrine because I was able to serve the church.
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- You can stay in a church you don't completely agree with as long as you're not going to cause division and serve people.
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- This podcast is part of the Striving for Eternity ministry. For more content or to request a speaker or seminar to your church, go to strivingforeternity .org.