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June: Christian Becoming Month
Responsible Ministry: Christian Becoming Ministry
Theme: “Equipping That Results in Christian Service”

Sermon Series: “Equipping That Results in Christian Service”
Texts: Ephesians 4:11-16

 

Sermon #1: Equipped Through Gifted Saints
Text: Ephesians 4:11
SCI: We Are Not Equipped Through Great Saints—We Are Equipped Through Gifted Saints
Billboard: GET EQUIPPED BY GIFTED SAINTS!

Sermon #2: Equipped to Serve
Text: Ephesians 4:12
SCI: Christians Shouldn’t Sit and Watch—Christians Should Serve and Work
Billboard: GET EQUIPPED TO SERVE!

Sermon #3: Equipped Through Spiritual Stature
Text: Ephesians 4:13
SCI: Believers Don’t Live Through a Low Standard—Believers Live Through a High Standard
Billboard: GET EQUIPPED FOR STATURE!

Rev. Lyle Lee (Guest Speaker) Sermon #4: Equipped Through Spiritual Sharing
Text: Ephesians 4:15-16
SCI: Believers Are Not Equipped for Isolation—Believers Are Equipped for Cooperation
 Billboard: GET EQUIPPED FOR SHARING!

Sermon #5: Equipped Through Spiritual Stability
Text: Ephesians 4:14
SCI: Immature Believers Display Instability—Mature Believers Display Stability  
Billboard: GET EQUIPPED FOR STABILITY!

 

Each Sermon Central Idea is developed in the form of an indicative.
Each Billboard is developed in the form of an imperative.
Sermon Series Overview and Outline
Prepared by Pastor Trevor Crenshaw for June 1, 2025 – June 31, 2025

All outlines are subject to divine adjustment.

Helpful Quotes

  • “We must allow the Word of God to confront us, to disturb our security, to undermine our complacency and to overthrow our patterns of thought and behavior.” – John Stott

  • “It is fashionable in some academic circles to exercise scholarly criticism of the Bible. In so doing, scholars place themselves above the Bible and seek to correct it. If indeed the Bible is the Word of God, nothing could be more arrogant. It is God who corrects us; we don’t correct Him. We do not stand over God but under Him.” – R.C. Sproul

  • “The soul can do without everything except the word of God, without which none at all of its wants are provided for.” – Martin Luther

  • “There have been prophets and students who handle the Bible like a child’s box of bricks; they explain to us the design and structure and purpose; but as time goes on things do not work out in their way at all. They have mistaken the scaffolding for the structure, while all the time God is working out His purpose with a great and undeterred patience.” – Oswald Chambers

  • “If people can take time knowing the facts about their favorite celebrities, surely they can allocate portions of their life in knowing more about God through the Bible.” – Tom Norman

  • “The Bible gives us our orientation to God and the baseline for processing the ·      drama each day brings. It challenges our motivations and gives us the deep wisdom it takes to function as the body of Christ. – Brian Hardin

  • “When we give our lives to Christ, our spirits are reborn but we still need to work on our souls and bodies. Our minds need to be renewed by The Word of God daily.” – Roni Adigun

  • “It is worth noting that we can hardly be obedient if we do not know what God demands of us; that is why it is so important to study the word of God continually.” – Clive Nicholson 

  • “We modern people think of miracles as the suspension of the natural order, but Jesus meant them to be the restoration of the natural order. The Bible tells us that God did not originally make the world to have disease, hunger, and death in it. Jesus has come to redeem where it is wrong and heal the world where it is broken. His miracles are not just proofs that he has power but also wonderful foretastes of what he is going to do with that power. Jesus’ miracles are not just a challenge to our minds, but a promise to our hearts, that the world we all want is coming.” – Timothy J. Keller