Sermon Series: Exodus: The Gospel According to the Old Testament
Sermon Text: Exodus 17:8-16, 18:10-23
Sermon Title: “Avoiding Church Burnout”
Sermon Slides:
SLIDE 1 – Sermon Title SlideSLIDE 2 – Today’s Big Idea: To Avoid Church Burnout … We Must Share the Load as a Body.
SLIDE 3 – Point 1: Moses Faces Burnout … from the Burdens of Ministry(17:8-12; 18:13-18)SLIDE 4 – Genesis 36:9, 12 – “These are the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites … These are the names of Esau's sons: Eliphaz the son of Adah the wife of Esau … (Timna was a concubine of Eliphaz, Esau's son; she bore Amalek to Eliphaz).”SLIDE 5 – Ephesians 6:12 – “For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but … against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.”SLIDE 6 – Copy of Point 1 SlideSLIDE 7 – Proverbs 15:18 – “A hot-tempered man stirs up strife, but he who is slow to anger quiets contention.”SLIDE 8 – Hebrews 12:15 – “See to it … that no ‘root of bitterness’ springs up and causes trouble, and by it many become defiled.”SLIDE 9 – Galatians 5:15 – “If you bite and devour one another, watch outthat you are not consumed by one another.”SLIDE 10 – Copy of Point 1 Slide
SLIDE 11 – Point 2: God’s Remedy for Burnout … Sharing the Load as a Body (17:12-16; 18:19-23)SLIDE 12 – 1 Corinthians 12:12-14, 20, 24-26 – “For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ … For the body does not consist of one member but of many … As it is, there are many parts, yet one body … But God has so composed the body, giving greater honor to the part that lacked it, that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another. If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together.”SLIDE 13 – Galatians 6:2 – “Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.”
SLIDE 14 – Seven Uses of This Sermon for Your LifeSLIDE 15 – A Confession from Your Pastor.SLIDE 16 – An Encouragement for Those Sharing the Load.SLIDE 17 – A Rebuke: Consumerism Can Kill a Church (and our Church).SLIDE 18 – Sharing the Load Speaks to the Healthiness of Church Membership.SLIDE 19 – Church Leadership Requires a Greater Shouldering of the Load.SLIDE 20 – A Winning Mindset is That We Win Together and We Lose Together.SLIDE 21 – Jesus Took Our Burden of Sin, So We Would be Burdened by Grace.
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