Leadership Messages (7)
Pastor Tony Silveira's Sermons and messages for Church Leaders. Some of these messages where shared in small group meetings with pastors and leaders of South Shore Community Church.
1. THE FLOW OF THE ANNOINTING BUILDS A NEW CHURCH
Genesis 28: 17 He was afraid and said, How to be feared and reverenced is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gateway to heaven!18 And Jacob rose early in the morning and took the stone he had put under his head, and he set it up for a pillar (a monument to the vision in his dream), and he poured oil on its top [in dedication]. 19 And he named that place Bethel [the house of God]; but the name of that city was Luz at first.
1. This is the first time that I can find in the Bible a mention to the anointing being poured. Jacob poured the anointing in the form of oil over a pillar of stone after he received a vision from the Lord.
There are two parts to the will of God.
- Alignment—The surrender of your will to God
- Assignment—God's will planned for you
"I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God" (Rom. 12:1–2 NKJV).
You will reproduce according to the same kind. You will attract people that are of the same kind. If we have lot's of garbage in our lives we will attract all sorts of junk.
A. INFLUENCE
1. Influence is like wind, you don't see it but it's there. Influence is what make people believe what you said
2. You are listening to me right now because of influence, if I had no influence you wouldn't come to this meeting.
3. You have influence when you live what you preach and you show that you believe in what you preach by the way you live.
1 Corinthians 14:20 "Brothers, do not be children in your thinking. Be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature."
Those who are saved are children "of God through faith in Christ Jesus" (Galatians 3:26) because God has "predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will" (Ephesians 1:5).
We need to keep growing in Spiritual maturity. Today we will learn about an important choice we all have to make
Today we start studying the book of 1st Corinthians. Corinth's importance in the ancient world was considerable. It was the densely populated capital of the Roman province of Achaia (a prefecture within contemporary Greece bears the name still), a busy commercial centre, and subject, therefore, to many outside influences. A thriving port city, it was infamous for its sexual vice and immorality.
Located on the route from Rome to the East, its key geographical position was ideal for the spread of the gospel as merchants and travelers from many places passed through it.
We could say that the fame of Corinth would be comparable today to cities like Las Vegas or Montreal. It was a city of culture but with a highly humanistic view of the world
Paul is talking about the way some people questioned the way himself and other men of God were being paid by the Church. Questioning about administration is something natural. Human organizations have a tendency to becoming corrupt, however in a Church there is a spiritual principle in operation were the devil always tries to choke the payment of the ones that work for the Lord because he knows that this will bring hinderances to the progress of God's Kingdom. In this text Paul gives several examples of other apostles (Cephas and Barnabas) and talks about the farmer, the soldier and the shepherd. On verse 9 mentions Scripture. Paul quotes Deuteronomy 25:4: 'Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain', and applies it to the right and proper financial support that all those called by God to devote all their time to ministry should receive from God's people. This was in harmony with the Old Testament practice that those whose work was in sacred things should gain their livelihood from it.
I want to pick out three Servants in the bible to use as examples for our attitude to servanthood. I read last week a quote from someone who said, "God did not save you to be a sensation; He saved you to be a servant." I don't know who said it, but I wish a man called Diotrephes had heard it. You can carry out ministry in two ways:
God called me to lead or heal or pray or pastor; and I'm going to show God and everyone else how good I can do it.
Now doing your best for God is laudable. Indeed, I would encourage every Christian to minister to the best of his/her ability, but there is a thin line that can easily be crossed; and Diotrephes crossed it.
