Oakwood Community Church
The Call to Work - I Peter 4
Locations & Times
Oakwood Community Church
11209 Casey Rd, Tampa, FL 33618, USA
Sunday 9:00 AM
Typical Model Today
The objective is self-glorification.
The Biblical Model
How can you be the most USEFUL to other people?
Three Indicators of Vocation
1. Gifts – use everything God has given you
“As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God’s varied grace.” 1 Peter 4:10
1. Gifts – use everything God has given you
“As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God’s varied grace.” 1 Peter 4:10
Three Indicators of Vocation
1. Gifts – use everything God has given you
• Spiritual gifts, natural abilities, life experiences, resources, etc.
“As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God’s varied grace.” 1 Peter 4:10
1. Gifts – use everything God has given you
• Spiritual gifts, natural abilities, life experiences, resources, etc.
“As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God’s varied grace.” 1 Peter 4:10
Guiding Questions:
1. Gifts – What are you good at?
2. Passion – What are you interested in?
1. Gifts – What are you good at?
2. Passion – What are you interested in?
“The maid who sweeps her kitchen is doing the will of God just as much as the monk who prays - not because she may sing a Christian hymn as she sweeps but because God loves clean floors. The Christian shoemaker does his duty not by putting little crosses on shoes, but by making good shoes, because God is interested in good craftsmanship.”
Jordan Raynor, Called to Create
Jordan Raynor, Called to Create
Three Indicators of Vocation
2. Passion – follow your excitement and holy anger
“Whoever speaks, as one who speaks the oracles of God; whoever serves, as one who serves by the strength God supplies.” 1 Peter 4:11
2. Passion – follow your excitement and holy anger
“Whoever speaks, as one who speaks the oracles of God; whoever serves, as one who serves by the strength God supplies.” 1 Peter 4:11
Three Indicators of Vocation
2. Passion – follow your excitement and holy anger
“I make it my ambition to preach the gospel, not where Christ has already been named.” Romans 15:20
2. Passion – follow your excitement and holy anger
“I make it my ambition to preach the gospel, not where Christ has already been named.” Romans 15:20
Blake Mycoskie wrote a book called Work as Worship - seeing his business as an expression of his devotion to God and to the people of the world.
Three Indicators of Vocation
3. Service – maximize your usefulness to people
“Above all, keep loving one another earnestly… As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another.” 1 Peter 4:8-9
3. Service – maximize your usefulness to people
“Above all, keep loving one another earnestly… As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another.” 1 Peter 4:8-9
Three Indicators of Vocation
3. Service – maximize your usefulness to people
“In order that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ.”
1 Peter 4:10
3. Service – maximize your usefulness to people
“In order that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ.”
1 Peter 4:10
Three Indicators of Vocation
3. Service – maximize your usefulness to people
“In order that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ.”
1 Peter 4:10
3. Service – maximize your usefulness to people
“In order that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ.”
1 Peter 4:10
“You are my masterpiece.” - God
“For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which he prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.”
Ephesians 2:10
“For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which he prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.”
Ephesians 2:10
MASTERPIECE
I’m the Author of your story
I designed you for my glory
It was no mistake to make you
I’ll never leave you or forsake you
My love for you is endless
Unconditional, relentless
And it will never cease
You are my masterpiece
I’m the Author of your story
I designed you for my glory
It was no mistake to make you
I’ll never leave you or forsake you
My love for you is endless
Unconditional, relentless
And it will never cease
You are my masterpiece
“For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.”
Ephesians 2:10
Ephesians 2:10