19th anniversary Rock Solid Church
God has proven His faithfulness. God has produced tremendous fruit.
2 Thessalonians 3:3 (NKJV) 3 But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you and guard you from the evil one.
John 15:5 (NKJV) 5 I am the vine, you are the branches John 15:5 (NKJV) 5 I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.
Psalm 27:13 (NLT) 13 Yet I am confident I will see the LORD’s goodness while I am here in the land of the living.
Proverbs 29:18 (MSG) 18 If people can't see what God is doing, they stumble all over themselves; But when they attend to what he reveals, they are most blessed.
God’s vision > Our vision Vision is the ability to “see” what God is doing AND what He is commissioning us as a body to do. God’s vision > Our vision Some people never see it. Some people see it but never pursue it. Some people see it and pursue it. Some people see it, pursue it, and help others to see it.
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3 Principles: Principle of FIRST Principle of “Us” Principle of SWEAT
PRINCIPLE OF FIRST
Luke 9:23 (NLT) 23 Then he said to the crowd, “If any of you wants to be my follower, you must turn from your selfish ways, take up your cross daily, and follow me.
Luke 9:24 (NLT) 24 If you try to hang on to your life, you will lose it. But if you give up your life for my sake, you will save it.
Luke 9:25 (NLT) 25 And what do you benefit if you gain the whole world but are yourself lost or destroyed?
Galatians 2:20 (NKJV) 20 I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.
PRINCIPLE OF “US”
Ephesians 4:3 (NKJV) 3 endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
Ephesians 4:13 (MSG) 13 until we're all moving rhythmically and easily with each other, efficient and graceful in response to God's Son, fully mature adults, fully developed within and without, fully alive like Christ.
Psalm 139:13 (NLT) 13 You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb.
Psalm 139:14 (NLT) 14 Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex Psalm 139:14 (NLT) 14 Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it.
Psalm 139:16 (NLT) 16 You saw me before I was born Psalm 139:16 (NLT) 16 You saw me before I was born. Every day of my life was recorded in your book. Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed.
“The great law of culture is: Let each become all that he was created capable of being.” Thomas Carlyle
PRINCIPLE OF SWEAT
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