May 20, 2009

Pastor Brooks
May 20, 2009

• John 14
• You can be in a situation and have no idea what you’re dealing with; not know the moment
• Quit holding the world responsible for what they do not know
• One of the problems with Christians is that we visit where we are supposed to live and live where we are supposed to visit.
• Keep moving; the valley is temporary.
• The body of Christ is a spiritual thing
• Matthew 1:17
• Jesus was God manifested in the earth, but he walked the earth as a man, not God.
• 1 Corinthians 12:1-7 (should help you be comfortable with who you are)
• The right tool makes things easy and the spirit of God is in your life to help you; to make things easy.
• There are diversities of gifts, but the same spirit.
• The five fold are not to minister, but to equip. We have misinterpreted that to mean the without the five-fold gifts we cannot minister.
• You have to tune yourself to the anointing, not the teaching style.
• Not every has the same gift, the same way of delivering it, or the same outcome, but the spirit of God is there.
• Titles are not important, function is.
• If you’re going to change the world, you have to have a small group.
• We need to understand the diversity of gifts; the spirit draws us together.
• We have to get comfortable with the diversity; celebrate it.
• Diversity is supposed to be the beauty of the church.