Teaching People to Serve Christ
God has given us the unique opportunity to invest in the spiritual profit of many far-reaching groups of people with the launch of Compass Bible Institute.
Ministry
Strength in Frailty
We must be continually mindful of our inherent human frailty, knowing that God wants us to be spiritually strong by trusting in his varied provisions as we seek to live for Christ and serve his cause.
Real Power & Prestige
We must be quick to rid ourselves any selfish ambition or self-promotion, knowing that we are required to sacrificially serve others in our calling to advance the cause of Christ in our world.
Grown-Up Church Life
As Christians mature, spiritually and biologically, they must be decisively to move from a consumer mindset to the perspective of being a selfless and sacrificial minister in Christ’s church.
Loving God’s Challenging Work
We must be continually mindful of the unique and exceeding authority of the Triune God we were created and redeemed to humbly serve.
What You Can Do for the Church
Every Christian must sense the urgent need to give priority to their church by praying, serving, and working to expand its evangelistic impact on its community for Christ.
The Fear of Responsibility
We will all be fairly and judiciously held accountable for our response to God’s call to employ our time, talent, and resources to serve Christ and advance his kingdom.
Looking to the Future
Healthy and productive churches must be resolute about living out God’s truth without compromise despite the threats or opposition from a hostile culture.
When You're the Farmer of the Year
We should be grateful for the foretaste of God’s power that is manifest through us in our evangelism that changes lives and toward us in our own salvation and personal transformation.
When You’re Feeling Competitive
God would not have us spend time or energy trying to rank ourselves or our church with others, knowing we are all recipients of grace and that Christ will equitably commend each of us one day.
When Our Preparation Isn't Enough
Christ will call us to positions and tasks for which we will feel inadequate, our job is to be faithful, trusting that he will supply all that is needed, bearing fruit through us in victories and setbacks.
Teaming Up to Prepare Our Generation
Our personal dissimilarities and diversity actually work in favor of our mission when we pull together as a church to evangelize and disciple our generation in preparation for Christ’s return.
The Practical Value of Integrity
As we consider Christ’s hatred of hypocrisy, we should at the same time consider the explicit and implicit benefits that are derived from living a Christlike life of integrity.
Our Struggle to Say "Any Time"
We must be flexible with God’s sovereign timing in our lives because he knows when everything is ready for us to make the impact he desires.
Our Struggle to Say "Any Place"
Because we are transient in this world, called to advance Christ and his kingdom, we must live nimble lives, ready to reside any place God directs without idolizing a specific geographic area.
Our Struggle to Say "Any Thing"
Because Christ is the sovereign Lord knowing best how our lives should be invested, we must resolve to love and trust him enough to willing do anything he might ask of us.
Apostasy & Stumbling Saints
Christ can use us greatly as we learn to trust him, making sure our faith genuine, and exercising it ambitiously whenever fears regarding our past, present, or future tempt us to retreat.
Church Life as it Ought to Be
God designed and directed all Christians to faithfully attend church, participate in a small group, and engage in some kind of ministry that is beneficial to the church.
Elizabeth: God's Unexpected Hero
God often prepares us to be useful through various trials which we must preserve with hope and resolve to parlay all he brings our way for the promotion of Christ.
Mary: God's Humble Teenager
While we will regularly feel inadequate for the things God calls us to do, we must boldly trust God to accomplish his will in us and through us as we humbly obey him.
The Guarantee of Our Success
Though our task to reach, teach and train is not humanly possible, Christ promises to build his church through our imperfect efforts as we faithfully work toward that end.
Training People to Serve Christ
Enduring participation in the work of evangelism & discipleship comes from those who have been spiritually conditioned by the disciplines of giving, praying & serving.
Teaching People to be Like Christ
Our weekly biblical preaching to God’s people is intended to produce “doers of the word” who are eager to receive the truth, live it out, and pass it on.
The Encouragement of Extending God's Kingdom
We should be greatly encouraged when we see God using us to bear fruit through our efforts in evangelism and discipleship.
Learning to Encourage One Another
We have the privilege and the responsibility to support, correct & encourage one another, utilizing God’s truth and employing pure & selfless motives.
Prayerfully-Reliant & Highly Committed Participants
When we incessantly pray, we are able to transfer our trust to a powerful God who is eager to enable each Christian in our church to be vastly productive for his kingdom.
Making Our Church Stronger
God requires that every Christian enthusiastically utilize the variety of personal investments that he has made in each of us to advance his cause and care for his church.
Serving Without Pride
As God begins to utilize us as his sold-out servants we need to vigorously fight our prideful tendency and see ourselves and all Christians as products of grace.