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The Believer’s Job Description: Point people to Jesus

Our assignment is to allow God to use us in our present stage of live to point family, friends, classmates, work associates, and neighbors toward Jesus.

Unselfish leadership has a grip on the “Why” of our existence.

Unselfish leadership has a grip on the Person of Jesus.

Four actions points:

Advent
The more we know about Jesus the more we focus on Him. 

The more we focus on Jesus the less we focus on ourselves.

Daily Devotions
Living Grounded
Unselfie Coaching Tip

What is your plan for Jesus to increase—to take the center stage—of your life?

Starting today—what will you do to make 2018 an Unselfie Christmas?

- Profess faith in Jesus as Savior and Lord  

- Proclaim the Good News of Jesus 

- Follow Jesus with every area of your life

Evangelism—Sharing Jesus to your world.
Missions—Sharing Jesus around the world.

Missionary = Global Worker
Missions = Global Ministry

The Bible Chapel’s Global Worker Challenge:

Adopt a Global Worker to pray for on a regular basis.

1. PRAYER IS WITHIN OUR DAILY RYTHME.

2. ALLOW THE HOLY SPIRIT TO DIRECT YOUR CONVERSATION WITH GOD.

3. PRAY REALISTICALLY NOT RITUALISITICLY.

Theodorus said of Martin Luther:
I overheard him in prayer, but good God, with what life and spirit did he pray! It was with so much reverence, as if he were speaking to God and with so much confidence as if he were speaking to a friend.

4. BE CONSISTENT AND PERSISTENT IN YOUR PRAYERS FOR OTHERS.

5. PRAY.

1.  Pray for your children.

Thanksgiving: Children are a gift from the Lord (Ps. 127.3). Thank God everyday for your children, their spouses, your grandchildren. 

Wisdom: Pray for spiritual wisdom to make godly decisions. 

Know Him better: Ask God to grow them deep in their knowledge and love for Christ.

Future Hope: Pray that your children live with eternity in mind.

Glorious inheritance: Thank God for the promise of eternity. Pray for children or grandchildren who don’t yet know Jesus.

Great power: As God to give them power through the Holy Spirit to live obediently.

Strength: Ask the Holy Spirit to provide them strength to resist temptations.

Established in love: Pray that they demonstrate a 1 Corinthians 13 love. 

Grasp the love of Christ: Pray that they understand who they are in Christ and live in the freedom of the unconditional love of Jesus.

2.  Use this Christmas to begin a time for family devotions.

3.   Help your children determine what to look for and pray for in a friend and future spouse.  

 4.  Teach your children how to handle responsibility.

 And Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man.

-Luke 2:52

 God:  Favor with God/Spirit

Personal Daily Devotions
Attend church weekly—corporate worship, get involved with a Bible Study on campus/dorm
Godly habits

Read:  Wisdom/Mind

Focus on Studies
Maintain GPA
Get to know professors—ask questions

Others: Favor with Man/Heart

Considerate of roommates
Dating—healthy physical boundaries. Remembers he’s someone’s future husband/wife and you are someone’s future husband/wife.
Stay in touch is family

Work Out: Stature/Body

Rest
Exercise
Eat Healthy

5.  Be a student of your children and their culture so that you can be the best teacher to your children.

6. Let’s work together to become an unselfie church.

The instruction of God should drive your heart—mind, emotions, and will.

The primarily way we teach our children is modeling and mentoring.  

Our love for Jesus controls our actions, direction, and the atmosphere of our homes.

You cannot impress on you children what you don’t possess.   

CHALLENGE:

Get serious about developing as a follower of Jesus. The ball is in your court.
Pray for your children.

1.  LEAVING: Complete loyalty to spouse.

Here are some questions for dating and married couples to consider: 

Are there unhealthy emotional ties to your parents, siblings, and/or friends?
Do arguments occur with regularity over issues dealing with your parents, siblings, and/or friends?
Do you discuss your marriage issues with parents, siblings, and/or friends?

2.  UNITED TO: Commitment.

“United to”

Permanence: Commitment to sticking to the marriage.
Stability: Commitment to the long haul.

3.  ONENESS

Spiritual Oneness: Developing together followers of Jesus. This involves praying together, having devotions together, worshipping together—you need to be worshipping together, serving together.
Physical Oneness: An exclusive fulfilling sexual commitment
Mental Oneness: Focusing your thoughts on your spouse.
Emotional Oneness: Commitment to exclusive feelings.
Missional Oneness: Going the same way at the same time for the same reasons. 

4.  HUSBAND: SERVANT LEADERSHIP

A Sacrificial Love
A Sanctifying Love
A Nourishing Love
A Satisfying Love 

5.  WIFE: SPIRITUAL PARTNER

Biblical submission does not mean that the wife is inferior in any way to her husband.
Biblical submission does not mean that a woman loses her identity and becomes a non-person in the marriage. 
Biblical submission does not mean a woman is a passive participant in marriage and family.
Biblical submission is never demanded.
Biblical submission only applies in the marriage relationship.
In marriage and family issues wives are to voluntarily submit themselves to the servant leadership of their husbands.

Unselfie begins with Jesus and flows to others (Philippians 2:1-2)

An Unselfie Life is not about ME; it’s about WE (Philippians 2:3-4)

An Unselfie Life uses personal advantages for the sake of others.

An Unselfie Life serves others.

Made himself nothing:
Jesus was fully God but he laid aside the independent use of his attributes.

Took on the nature of a servant being made in human likeness:
Although Jesus was fully God, he permanently became human and lived in a sinless physical body.

An Unselfie Life sacrifices for others.

An Unselfie Life glorifies God.

The path to forgiveness begins with an appeal for God’s mercy (Ps. 51:1a)

The path to forgiveness is paved by God’s character (Ps. 51:1b)

The path to forgiveness is a heart-felt desire for a fresh start (Ps. 51:1c-2)

The path to forgiveness causes me to own my sin (Ps. 51:3)

The path to forgiveness acknowledges that all sin is against God (Ps. 51:4a)

The path to forgiveness accepts the consequences of sin (Ps. 51:4b)

The path to forgiveness is a desire for cleansing (Ps 51:5-7).

The path of forgiveness includes the desire for renewed strength to obey (Ps. 51:10-12)

The path of forgiveness leads to thanksgiving (Ps. 51:13-15).

Sin seals the lips of testimony.

The path of forgiveness begins with godly sorrow (Ps. 51:16-17)

True Repentance

• Conviction
• Confession
• Change

The path to forgiveness begins an appeal for God’s mercy (Psalm 51:1a)

Grace: receiving what I don’t deserve.
Mercy: not receiving what I do deserve.

The path to forgiveness is paved by God’s character.

The path of forgiveness is a heart-felt desire for a fresh start.

• Blot out my transgressions.
• Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity.
• Cleanse me from my sin

SATAN’S CHALLENGE

• Does God communicate clearly? (3:1b)
• Does God tell the truth? (3:4)
• Are God’s motives pure? (3:5)

THE WOMAN’S RESPONSE (Genesis 3:6-7)

The Anatomy of Temptation and Sin

• Saw: Appealing (3:6a)
• Wanted: Desire (3:6b)
• Took: Participation (3:6c)
• Hide: Cover Up (3:7)

GOD’S CONFRONTATION (Genesis 3:8-19)

• Sin causes us to hide from God (3:8-10).
• Sin causes us to blame God and others (3:11-13)
• Sin carries serious consequences (3:14-19)

GOD’S GRACE (Genesis 3:20-21)

• Adam demonstrated faith (3:20)
• God provided a substitute (3:21)

Protoevangelium (Prototype of the Gospel)