February 9, 2025
Find Your Team | Chase Trimmier
Speaker:
Chase Trimmier
Message Resources
Message Summary
The church is our home to practice how we will serve the world. As Christians, living like Jesus is counter cultural. Serving others first is emphasized in Romans 12:1-7. In this passage Paul calls for a transformed life, one filled with humility, unity in the church, and the faithful use of our God-given gifts. We are called to dedicate ourselves wholly to God’s will. We are not to conform to worldly ways. We are not to think too highly of ourselves but have sober judgement based on the faith God has given to each of us. We should see the church as a body in which every member has a different function yet belonging to one another in Christ. We each have different spiritual gifts, and we should all use these gifts faithfully in order to serve God.
Service is a response to God’s love not a requirement to earn it. We can’t help but live like Jesus everywhere we go because of what God has done. We can respond to the word of God by the way we serve him with our lives.
You can’t follow Jesus and sit in the owner’s box; you got to get in the game and serve. Find a place to serve.
Experience what happens when you get outside yourself and have a kingdom impact on the people around you.
You may serve in different positions but equal sacrifice. In Mathew 20:24-26, Jesus emphasizes true leadership is about humility and service rather than status or authority. You need a place where God can use you. The kingdom of heaven is not just some day in the future, you can experience the kingdom of God today.
Discussion
1. Do you believe God loves you? What does the Bible say about God’s love for you?
2. In response to God’s love, how can you serve others? What’s keeping you from doing that consistently?
3. What are you gifted (or good) at? What would it look like for you to use that gift to help people?
4. Why is it important to be in community with other believers? Where can you find a place to be in community?
5. Are you serving on a team in the church? Why is it important to serve on a team?
6. How can you find a place to serve in your local church?
7. Generosity is also a form of service. How and where can you be more generous on a consistent basis?
Scriptures
Romans 12:1-7 - Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. 2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will. 3 For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the faith God has distributed to each of you. 4 For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, 5so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others. 6 We have different gifts, according to the grace given to each of us. If your gift is prophesying, then prophesy in accordance with your faith; 7 if it is serving, then serve; if it is teaching, then teach; 8 if it is to encourage, then give encouragement; if it is giving, then give generously; if it is to lead, do it diligently; if it is to show mercy, do it cheerfully.
Mathew 20:24-28 - 24 When the ten heard about this, they were indignant with the two brothers. 25 Jesus called them together and said, “You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their high officials exercise authority over them. 26 Not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, 27 and whoever wants to be first must be your slave— 28 just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
Matthew 23:11-12 - 11 The greatest among you will be your servant. 12 For those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.
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