Work as a body to grow, 1 Cor. 3:5-11 Busy planting & watering Unified in labors Continue collective efforts
Are you doing your part? Not just through contribution Personally planting Personally watering
Key to conversion, Rom. 10:8-17 Word preached – confession & belief Calling on Lord requires hearing
Key to conversion, Rom. 10:8-17 Positive examples ∙Word – believed, Acts 4:4 ∙Word – saved, Acts 11:14 ∙Truth – trust, Eph. 1:13
Key to conversion, Rom. 10:8-17 Negative examples ∙Have not word – believe not, Jn. 5:38 ∙Put it from – unworthy, Acts 13:46 ∙Not love truth – not saved, 2 Thes. 2:10
Gospel calls men, 2 Thes. 2:13-15 Not an experience Not popularity Not riches Not entertainment Not caught like a virus
Key to faithfulness & strength Word – in Him, 1 Jn. 2:3-5 Word – growth, 1 Pt. 1:22-2:2 Called away from – fall from grace, Gal. 1:6, 7; 5:4 Reject the faith – shipwreck of faith, 1 Tim. 1:19
Respond to or kept by a different call Then not converted or faithful Pricked in heart by word, Acts 2:37 Drawn by teaching, Jn. 6:44, 45
Plant the seed, Acts 8:4; Mt. 25:14-30 Family Children Friends Neighbors
Water the seed, Acts 14:21, 22 Different soils; different germinations Different temperatures; different growth No water = no germination No water = no growth
God gives the increase, 1 Cor. 3:6-9 Labor with Him, not for Him Cannot promise numbers or growth ∙Noah – eight people, Gen. 7 ∙Lot – three, Gen. 19 ∙Jesus – many went back, Jn. 6:66 ∙More will reject, than accept, Mt. 7:13, 14
Nothing mysterious, magical, or mystical about conversion & growth Must plant Must water Cannot compromise for numbers, Eph. 5:11 Cannot soften truth for results, 2 Tim. 4:2-5
To grow, we may need to remove “weeds” Josh. 7, 8 Repent individually Repent collectively
Work as a body to grow, 1 Cor. 3:5-11 Busy planting & watering Unified in labors Continue collective efforts
Are you doing your part? Not just through contribution Personally planting Personally watering