Your Ministry of Mercy - Part 1
6/16/202626 min
Jesus says in Matthew 5:7, "God blesses those who are merciful, for they will be shown mercy" (NLT). If you want to experience God's mercy, then you need to learn to be a minister of mercy. In this broadcast, Pastor Rick gives you four reasons God expects you to show mercy.
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 10:00
[upbeat music] Hello, and welcome to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope with Rick Warren. We are so glad you're here with us today. We're going to continue our series called The Keys to a Blessed Life. Now, in these messages, Rick walks through Jesus's Sermon on the Mount and shows us how to live a truly hopeful and purpose-filled life. So let's jump right in with part one of Your Ministry of Mercy.
Rick Warren· Host0:26
One of Saddleback's values, one of our 10 key values is every member is a minister. Not everybody's a pastor, but if you're called to follow Christ, you're called to serve. To be a servant is to be a minister. To be a minister, to be a servant. The word serve and minister are the same in the Bible. And the Bible says every believer is a minister. Now, we all minister in different ways, but any time you help somebody else in Jesus' name, that is called ministry. And as I said, we, the Bible says there are different kinds of service, different kinds of ministries, but there is one ministry that we all have in common, and that's what I want us to look at this weekend. I call it your ministry of mercy. God wants you to be an agent of mercy in the world. There's not enough mercy in this world, and God wants you to be a provider. He wants you to be an agent. He wants you to be a purveyor of mercy in the world. Now, in the fifth key