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Lesson from farmers in 1920-30
The Word does not just apply individually.
God grows his kingdom only as we take our hands off of what little portion he’s given to us, “die” to our control of it, and plant it into the world.
- J.D. Greear
Greear, J.D.. Gaining By Losing (Exponential Series) (p.
16).
Zondervan.
Kindle Edition.
If you looked at every one of your blessings as “kingdom seeds,” how many of them are you planting in the fields of God’s kingdom, and how many are you keeping in storehouses to use as “food”?
Greear, J.D.. Gaining By Losing (Exponential Series) (p.
16).
Zondervan.
Kindle Edition.
What are we willing to give away?
Are we willing to lose our kingdom for His?
Quite often when I had prayed, “Thy kingdom come,” what I really meant was “My kingdom come.”
Greear, J.D.. Gaining By Losing (Exponential Series) (p.
17).
Zondervan.
Kindle Edition.
There are two basic questions about discipleship that we have to ask ourselves over and over, in every new season of life and in regards to whatever resources
Two questions about what God has given us stewardship over:
— Whose kingdom are we actually building: ours, or God’s?
— Do we really believe that Jesus grows his kingdom most as we “give away” what he’s given to us?
Throughout this book I will introduce a number of ministry
“Plumb Lines”
— key phrases that we can use at our church to keep our ministries and our lives centered on sending.
I hope that they help you evaluate the shape of your ministry and consider its trajectories.
If you are a church leader, I hope this study helps you to see that
Fairlawn’s greatest kingdom potential lies not in our ability to gather and inspire our people at a weekly worship meeting, but in our capacity to equip them and send them out as seeds into the kingdom of God.
If you’re not a church leader, I want you to understand the crucial role you play in the church’s future.
I believe that the future of Christianity lies in your hands, not in ours (that is, the hands of your church leaders).
That’s not pep-talk rhetoric.
Jesus’ promises about the greatness of the church are about ordinary people being filled with the Spirit, turning the world upside down.
As leaders, our job is not to gather you, amaze you, and collect your funds; our job is to help you discover the power and potential of the Spirit in you.
As I will show you, you — the so-called
The “Ordinary Believer” — is the tip of the gospel spear.
The greatest gospel movements in history have been facilitated by ordinary people like you, not church leaders like me.
And the Great Commission will be completed only when we church leaders get serious about sending you out to do what God has called you to do, and you get serious about doing it.
Greear, J.D.. Gaining By Losing (Exponential Series) (pp.
17-18).
Zondervan.
Kindle Edition.
His obligation was not primarily to the church in Rome, it was to the Gospel.
Our obligation is not primarily to Fairlawn Baptist Church, it is to the Gospel.
Maybe our focus has become on self-preservation rather than Gospel multiplication.
So, how do we turn that around?
That is what we will hope to discover in the next few weeks.
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