Sermon Notes, February
9, 2014
Pastor Jan Sinozich
Pastor Jan’s
sermon was titled “Availability: The Perspective of Serving God.” She started off with a story about the London
transit system that was receiving lots of complaints because the buses drove
right by the bus stops without stopping even though people were in line waiting
to be picked up. The authorities issued
a statement: “It is impossible for us to maintain our schedules if we are
always having to stop and pick up passengers.”
They thought their job was to keep a schedule, when really their job was
to pick up passengers—their perspective was wrong: they failed to do what they
were created to do.
What are we
created to do? God made us for relationship,
with him and with others. Ephesians
2:8-10 says we’re created to do good works that he’s prepared for us, and he
tells us how to do them (in response to what he’s done in us) and helps us do
it (we join him). We’re created to serve
God in everything we do.
How are we to
accomplish what we are created to do? We
are all busy. So were people in the
Bible that God called to serve Him. They
knew how to work. God is looking for
workers, and He has a training plan.
(Luke 16:10) God calls busy
people to work, in everything they’re already doing.
How does this
work? Maybe we need to look at what we
do in a different way. Faith is our
daily life. Service is what we do—everything
we do. Look at the things we have to
accomplish every day in light of God’s mission—as part of God’s mission. We are to be available to God in everything
we do—all day, every day. We are to be
faithful in the small things.
If we’re serving
God in response to what He’s done in our lives, with a true perspective, we see
everyone we come in contact with as a child of God. We’re up for the challenge even when people
are difficult. Serving God is our
response to the things God brings into our day.
(Matthew 25:35) It’s seeing our
world intentionally with a true, godly perspective. We live out our worship.
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