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Life Coach Bro. Charles Burt
What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's. KJV 1 Co 6:19-20
• Lighthouse Full Life Fitness Center is committed to providing an environment that will nurture spiritual, mental and physical growth for adults and children.
• Our staff is trained to model the core Lighthouse Christian values: Faith, Responsibility, Respect, Honesty, and Caring as they interact with our guest and members.
• Our goal is to help you achieve your goals. Whether it is to lose weight, gain self-confidence, build muscle mass, increase aerobic activity, reduce body composition, flexibility, personal training, and healthy eating, etc.
Spiritual.......... (Back to top)
Life Coach Pastor Marvin-Spiritual Gifts and Purpose
Ministry Profiling
In doing a ministry assessment we will determine what ministries need to be functioning in order for us to accomplish God's purpose and for our church. The next step is to determine the people resources needed for these ministries and to match individuals according to their passion, purpose and personality.
I will facilitate helping each member find their place in the body To effectively accomplish the tasks or positions within the ministry, people should have the right gifts, heart passions, and personality. Their experience and walk with God would also be factors to consider.
While each Chief Ministry Servant will play a significant role in staffing needs, the Pastor will greatly facilitate this process. The Pastors have an awareness of the big picture to help prevent people from being overused (overcommitted to numerous ministries) or misused (used in an area that does not fit their gifts/abilities or the needs of the ministry). The Pastor would be responsible for matching the right person to the right task. That is done through ministry profiling.
Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. (Matt. 22:37)
God wants all of who you are to go into loving and serving Him. To find your best fit in ministry, put all of who you are into all of who He is.
Your life is like a puzzle. The pieces fit together to make a whole. When you combine your spiritual gifts, personality, passions, and experience you will discover a picture which shows you how you can best serve the Lord with maximum effectiveness. ----YOUR MINISTRY PROFILE!
Each part of who you are affects the other parts and contributes to how God wants to use you. Here is what each part contributes to the way you will serve:
Your walk motivates you for ministry.
Your spiritual gifts enable you for ministry.
Your passions give focus to ministry.
Your personality expresses itself in ministry.
Your experiences help develop you for ministry.
Walk with God: motivates you for ministry
Essential to the proper outworking of your ministry profile is a growing, close walk with God. Spiritual gifts, personality, heart passions, and experience blend together to yield a greater effectiveness in serving God, but they will only take you so far if they are not under the constant refining work of the Spirit of God.
Spiritual Gifts: your enablement for ministry
Spiritual gifts are a special divine empowerment to do what God wants you to do. They point you in the direction of the ministry area(s) in which you should be involved. As you consider your passions, personality, and experience in combination with your gifts, you will know which tasks to zero in on within those areas and the people to whom you should minister. To illustrate how spiritual gifts work in combination with all of who we are, think about the gift of teaching. Some people will say they have a gift to teach children. Their spiritual gift is teaching, not teaching children. No where in Scripture does God categorize gifts according to age levels, gender, or other distinctions within which they operate. Someone with the gift of teaching could teach any age if gifting was the only factor. The bent toward children comes from the person's passions and past experience. Certain personality temperaments do better with children than others.
To find your best fit in ministry, begin by discovering how you are gifted but go beyond to factor in your passions, personality, and experience.
From Him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work. (Eph. 4:16)
Written in the context of spiritual gifting, Ephesians 4:16 lets us know that every Christian has a part in the church which will be instrumental to the growth of the Body of Christ. 1 Corinthians 12:7 says, "Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good."
Since there is a limit on the time we can serve, we need to look for maximum effectiveness. Structuring our ministries around our spiritual gifts will help us do that. Knowing where we are gifted will help us know where to put our focus, energy, and time. It will show us where we should plug into ministry. But, the use of our spiritual gifts must follow God's design for the church, God's own character, God's principles in His Word and, the use of our spiritual gifts must be exercised in His power by His grace.
Soul ..........(Back to top)
Life Coach Lady MaLinda
(Soul) Mind Matters
Helping Ministries Overview
Plans fail for lack of counsel,but with many advisers they succeed. (Prov. 15:22) We are called to come along side of one another. Counseling is one of the ways to do that. God will use us to help others succeed in their way, to walk according to His ways. Let us remember, however, that the ultimate counselor in a person's life is the Spirit of God. (Jn. 14:16, 26).
But, some may say, why a counselor? If the Body of Christ is functioning as it should, are counselors really necessary? Undoubtedly a large portion of professional counseling could be eliminated if the church was committed to living out the 'one another' commands of Scripture.
. . . admonish one another . . . bear one another's burdens . . . build up one another . . . care for one another . . . comfort one another . . . confess faults to one another . . . encourage one another . . . spur one another on
Surely, in this kind of dynamic atmosphere, healing and change would occur. People would find the church to be a safe place, among those who accept one another. According to Titus 2:11-12, it is grace that "teaches us to say 'no' to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age."
In an effort to facilitate healthy minds, the Mind Matters concept is two fold, one is being proactive in preparing healthy minds and the other is reactive, ensuring that there is ongoing opportunities to become healthy through groups, seminars and support services and also to work with M.I.T candidates and C.M.S in providing basic support. Having a trained group of ministry leaders as well as addressing individual member needs is crucial to the health of the body.
Consistent with the Vision of the church as outlined by the Senior Pastor, the goal is not to enable but to equip. To that end, the following sessions will be offered within the first year and offerings will be expanded as needs dictate;
Basic Helping Ministry training. Individuals will be selected and appointed by the Senior Pastor.
N.A. and A.A. groups
Co-Dependency
Self Esteem
Personal Vision Planning (to include vision statements)
Healthy Relationships
Positive Parenting
Identifying and living with Learning Disabilities
Grief Management
Good Reasons to Help People in Need:
It's a part of making disciples.
Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. (Matt. 28:19-20)
It's a way to show love.
Love your neighbor as yourself. (Matt. 22:39) -- My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. (Jn. 15:12-13) -- Serve one another in love. (Gal. 5:13)
It's what body life is all about.
If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it. (1 Cor. 12:26) -- Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn. (Rom. 12:15) -- Carry each other's burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ. (Gal. 6:2)
It's a reflection of the character of our Lord Jesus.
For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many. (Mk. 10:45) -- Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others. Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus. (Phil. 2:4-5)
Who should help:
All believers are called to come alongside of other people to help in time of need.
Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, especially to those who belong to the family of believers. (Gal. 6:10) -- And do not forget to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased. (Heb. 13:16)
Yet, there will be those who, by virtue of their spiritual gifting, should focus their time, energy, and resources into helping ministries above and beyond that of other believers.
There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit. There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord. There are different kinds of working but the same God works all of them in all men. (1 Cor. 12:4-6)
Those with the gift of exhortation, for example, may be suited for counseling and support groups. Those with the gift of mercy may find themselves comforting those who grieve and providing relief assistance. Those with the gift of service may find themselves assisting people with their physical needs. Those with the gift of giving may provide finances or material goods to assist those with physical needs or to help in time of crisis
Some people may not have the primary helping gifts but may nonetheless have a passion toward these areas or toward people in need. They could fulfill leadership or administrative roles within these ministries. They could be teaching and training others to do the work. They could be praying for the ministry. These believers may not be in regular contact with the people in need but still hold integral roles in ministry to them.
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