Imposter Syndrome

Pastor Jason Burns

• Doctrine
• Application

Ephesians 4:1-4 (NLT)  //  Therefore I, a prisoner for serving the Lord, beg you to lead a life worthy of your calling, for you have been called by God.

• Worthy: to weigh as much

Ephesians 4:1-4 (NLT)  //  Always be humble and gentle. Be patient with each other, making allowance for each other’s faults because of your love. 3 Make every effort to keep yourselves united in the Spirit, binding yourselves together with peace. 4 For there is one body and one Spirit, just as you have been called to one glorious hope for the future.

• Humility – Lowliness
• Gentleness – Meekness
• Patience – Long Suffering
• United

Ephesians 4:7  //  But to each one of us grace has been given as Christ apportioned it.

• Charis: A Divine Enablement

Ephesians 4:11-16 (NLT)  //  Now these are the gifts Christ gave to the church: the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, and the pastors and teachers. 12 Their responsibility is to equip God’s people to do his work and build up the church, the body of Christ. 13 This will continue until we all come to such unity in our faith and knowledge of God’s Son that we will be mature in the Lord, measuring up to the full and complete standard of Christ. 14 Then we will no longer be immature like children. We won’t be tossed and blown about by every wind of new teaching. We will not be influenced when people try to trick us with lies so clever they sound like the truth. 15 Instead, we will speak the truth in love, growing in every way more and more like Christ, who is the head of his body, the church. 16 He makes the whole body fit together perfectly. As each part does its own special work, it helps the other parts grow, so that the whole body is healthy and growing and full of love.

• God has called every believer to be a minister in the world around them.

1 Peter 2:9-10 (MSG)  //  But you are the ones chosen by God, chosen for the high calling of priestly work, chosen to be a holy people, God’s instruments to do his work and speak out for him, to tell others of the night-and-day difference he made for you—from nothing to something, from rejected to accepted.

Ephesians 2:10 (NLT)  //  For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.

• Every gift God has given is unique and important
• Dysphoria

Romans 12:3-8  //  For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the faith God has distributed to each of you. 4 For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, 5 so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others. 6 We have different gifts, according to the grace given to each of us. If your gift is prophesying, then prophesy in accordance with your faith; 7 if it is serving, then serve; if it is teaching, then teach; 8 if it is to encourage, then give encouragement; if it is giving, then give generously; if it is to lead, do it diligently; if it is to show mercy, do it cheerfully.

• Highly – Improper View
• Sober – Having a Right Mind
• Faith – Allowing the One who created you to give you the right view
• “Do not have a wrong view of who you are, instead be set free and put in your right mind by allowing the One who created you to show you who you are and what you were created to do.”
• Discover my spiritual gift
• Design reveals destiny
• Develop my spiritual gift

1 Corinthians 12:27 (TLB)  //  Now here is what I am trying to say: All of you together are the one body of Christ, and each one of you is a separate and necessary part of it.

• Use my spiritual gift

1 Peter 4:10 (NLT)  //  God has given each of you a gift from his great variety of spiritual gifts. Use them well to serve one another.