SWYC 2018: Abiding in Christ

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GYC Southwest

Workshop: Dealing with Conflicts In Ministry

Dwayne Lemon

Dealing with Conflict and Adversity in Personal Liberty

Dealing With Conflict and Adversity in Ministry in the Home

Dealing With Conflict in Public Ministry

Peter Chung

Andre Waller

Questions and Answers in Conflicts in Ministry

We're going to be talking about abiding in Christ in conflict and adversity.

And again, we're going to look at this from the perspective of especially when you're doing some aspect of ministry.

And I'll make you aware of some things right from the beginning as it relates to that, but let's all begin with a word of prayer.

Let's bow our heads and let's get started.

Father in heaven, we are very grateful for the privilege to come together as a family to study your words of truth.

We pray in the name of Jesus that you would be in our midst and that you'll speak to our hearts.

Grant us your Holy Spirit, Lord, and may He give us understanding of the things that we need most.

Go to Matthew, the 28th chapter, and I want you to watch what the Bible says here.

And when you get there, just let me know by saying amen.

Every single 1 of us, unless you are not a baptized member of God's Church, every single 1 of us are called to ministry.

It varies, but all of us are called to ministry.

In Matthew 28, Jesus gave a command to the disciples.

The command that he gave to the disciples is found in verses 19 and 20, And it's the Gospel Commission, and here's what it says.

Now the word teach in the Greek is a Greek word, matheteou, and what it means is to make disciples.

So what Jesus was doing was commanding the disciples, go make more disciples.

So he says, go ye therefore and teach or make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost.

Then it says, teaching them to observe, how much?

Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I've commanded you and lo I'm with you always even to the end of the world now the same way that Jesus called the 12 eventually it became 11 because we know Judas apostatized but in either case when Jesus called the 12 they were all called in the same way that you and I are called.

Let's go to Luke 9 and I want you to watch how Jesus called them and in like manner he calls us.

So we're gonna look at Luke the ninth chapter and I want you to watch what it says as we consider verses 1 & 2.

Again, when you're there, please say Amen.

The Bible says in Luke 9 starting at verse 1, Then he called his 12 disciples together and gave them power and authority over all devils and to cure diseases.

And he sent them to preach the kingdom of God and to heal the sick.

How many of them were given power to heal diseases?

How many of them were medical professionals?

None of the 12 were medical professionals.

He commissioned them that he said, listen, I am calling you, but the call to come in was always the call to go out.

Jesus called them to himself for the purpose of giving them authority, giving them power that they might go out.

Before any of you are members of God's church, you should be disciples of Jesus Christ.

When we have a membership mentality, we actually can feel good about just having a membership, even though we're not doing the thing that was the purpose of the membership.

That's the reason why I don't like encouraging us to simply remember that we're members.

And the good news is that all disciples work.

Eventually when the 70 came in it was all 70.

So literally, if you are a baptized member of God's church, you are a minister.

You have been called to do some type of ministry.

Now again, there's various types of ministries.

You got evangelists, you got pastors, you got teachers, you got all sorts of different groups that can function in different ways.

But the key is that I need each and every 1 of us to understand you have all been called to some type of ministry.

You have been called not merely to come in and enjoy a membership, but you've been called to come in, be trained, and be equipped to fulfill the commission.

When I joined the church, It was not clearly taught to me that I was meant to be a disciple, to be a worker.

That was not really pushed to me at all, not much at all, even though that's what I became.

So I'm the guy, and you know, it's so sad that the sunlight and everything kind of blocks it, but nevertheless, you know, I'm this guy right here.

This was a hip hop group that I was a part of called Quiet Storm.

And we called ourselves Quiet Storm because we said we walk soft, but we hit hard.

And we would go to lots of clubs and parties and all of these different things.

And eventually, I started to go to Manhattan, New York, and just started to audition to work with a lot of hip hop and R&B artists.

So I started working with people like Queen Latifah, Brandy, Heavy D.

These were actually people that I worked with.

And I started to dance on stage and to perform with them in music videos and things of that nature.

And it's a shame that the sunlight's on that 1.

Y'all could have seen what I look like with hair.

But nevertheless, that was the older life.

Started to work with a lot of guys, Busta Rhyme, Tribe Called Quest, Wu-Tang Clan, a lot of these different groups.

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Workshop: Dealing with Conflicts In Ministry

Dealing with Conflict and Adversity in Personal Liberty

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