Message Notes for July 7, 2024

Series: Gains and Losses

Title: 10,000 Hours

The mentor relationship has received increasing amounts of attention from both organizational leadership researchers and leadership practitioners alike. Successful mentor relationships result in benefits to the mentor, the protégé, and the organization. In the New Testament, the apostle Paul recognized the value of developing Timothy into a more effective minister of the gospel. Paul carefully selected Timothy to work with him in the ministry.

The Mentorship:

I Corinthians 9:1-12 ESV Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are not you my workmanship in the Lord? 2 If to others I am not an apostle, at least I am to you, for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord. 3 This is my defense to those who would examine me. 4 Do we not have the right to eat and drink? 5 Do we not have the right to take along a believing wife, as do the other apostles and the brothers of the Lord and Cephas? 6 Or is it only Barnabas and I who have no right to refrain from working for a living? 7 Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard without eating any of its fruit? Or who tends a flock without getting some of the milk? 8 Do I say these things on human authority? Does not the Law say the same? 9 For it is written in the Law of Moses, “You shall not muzzle an ox when it treads out the grain.” Is it for oxen that God is concerned? 10  Does he not certainly speak for our sake? It was written for our sake, because the plowman should plow in hope and the thresher thresh in hope of sharing in the crop. 11 If we have sown spiritual things among you, is it too much if we reap material things from you? 12 If others share this rightful claim on you, do not we even more?

Three Things needed to WIN the RACE:

 Equipment

 Food

 Practice

What does 10,000 hours look like at CTK?

 Stop competing against other believers. 

 Run with self-control. 

 Study the Word and make the Lord a priority.

 Our relationship with Jesus Christ puts us in the race.

 Evangelize and edify.

Family/Group Study Notes for the week of July 7, 2024

Series: Gains and Losses

Title: 10,000 Hours

 Share with your group or family ways that being a good steward helps with your serving in the church. What does it mean for you to serve “as unto the Lord”?

 Read 1 Corinthians chapter 9. What is the wisdom Paul is giving these Christians? In what ways do these verses, and the summary of them, challenge you? What do Paul’s sacrifices teach us about living a gospel-centered life?

 How does Paul’s willingness to forego his rights challenge your perspective on your personal rights and privileges?

 What does Paul’s comparison of the Christian life to a race, mean to you personally?

 How do you relate to Paul’s strategy of becoming “all things to all people” in order to save some?

 What does the phrase “disciplining his body to keep it under control” mean in the context of your life?

 What sacrifices might you be called to make for the sake of furthering the Gospel?

 How does this chapter shape your understanding of Christian leadership and service?

 Read Psalms 71. What does David say our focus should be in this passage?

“Even when I am old and gray, do not forsake me, my God, till I declare your power to the next generation, your mighty acts to all who are to come.” How are you mentoring the next generation in your stewardship?

 The Charlotte Crusade is coming in September. How can you help prepare the way for someone far from God to come and hear the Gospel? What would it cost for you to do that?

 Gather in groups and pray for each other as you seek to follow Jesus with all your heart.