Equipped 2023 - For Youth: ”Help Me Serve” by Tyler Alverson

April 22, 2023 - Equipped Workshop Day 3

10:00AM MPR 2 Speaker 

 

Tyler Averson challenges us to change our views on helping others. Looking at the book of James, Tyler shows how we should think about and approach helping others.

 

Slides:

• It's all about me
• Help Me Serve (James 1-2)
  • 1 Corinthians 9:19 - For though I am free from all, I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win more of them.
  • Mark 10:45 - For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to server, and to give his life as a ransom for many.
• Help Me Serve
  • Ask God for Wisdom - (1:5-8)
    • Illustration of  a hot Burner on a stove
    • If mama ain't happy Ain't nobody happy
    • Illustration of cheating on a test
  • Imitate God's Giving - (1:17)
  • Be doers of the WORD - (1:22)
  • Help the helpless - (1:27)
    • "God helps those who help themselves"
  • Refuse to show partiality - (2:1)
  • Love your neighbor as yourself - (2:8)
    • Leviticus 19:18 - You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.
    • Matthew 22:39 - And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
  • Live in view of judgment - (2:12)
    • The Sheep and the Goats - Matthew 25:31-46
  • Show Mercy - (2:13)
  • Show your faith by your works - (2:18)

Duration 33:09