2. Work as a body to grow, 1 Cor. 3:5-11  Busy planting & watering  Unified in labors  Continue collective efforts

3. Are you doing your part?  Not just through contribution  Personally planting  Personally watering

5. Key to conversion, Rom. 10:8-17  Word preached – confession & belief  Calling on Lord requires hearing

6. Key to conversion, Rom. 10:8-17  Positive examples ∙Word – believed, Acts 4:4 ∙Word – saved, Acts 11:14 ∙Truth – trust, Eph. 1:13

7. 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

8. Gospel calls men, 2 Thes. 2:13-15  Not an experience  Not popularity  Not riches  Not entertainment  Not caught like a virus

9. 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

10. 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

11. Plant the seed, Acts 8:4; Mt. 25:14-30  Family  Children  Friends  Neighbors

12. Water the seed, Acts 14:21, 22  Different soils; different germinations  Different temperatures; different growth  No water = no germination  No water = no growth

13. 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

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

15. To grow, we may need to remove “weeds” Josh. 7, 8  Repent individually  Repent collectively

17. Work as a body to grow, 1 Cor. 3:5-11  Busy planting & watering  Unified in labors  Continue collective efforts

18. Are you doing your part?  Not just through contribution  Personally planting  Personally watering