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Title: *You got what it takes*
Text: John 6:1-13
*Introduction*: The average size of a church is only about 100 members.
This number seems small compared to the number of needs that the local church has to tend to.
With a number of this size, the amount of resources can be some what limited.
Funds for programming can be limited.
The skill set in each church will only have a small pool to draw from.
However, size is never an issue when it comes to God.
Any amount offered to God in faith and for service in His kingdom always becomes abundance.
Small becomes surplus when it committed into the master hands his use.
Today’s story depicts this thought.
In this passage, Christ typifies what the church should be and how the church should respond to the needs of those who come for help.
The church is a special place and is designed for a special purpose.
The Church is the embodiment of Christ.
The Church is Jesus’ hands and feet.
Everything that is in Christ can operate in the church.
Therefore, if Christ is the Lord without limits, His church should be without limit also.
The Church has what it takes to meet the needs of the people.
But the problem is that we limited our effectiveness because we don’t have the right kind of faith to be effective.
But our passage today shows us how the church should operate meeting the needs that come for help.
Around the time of Passover after Jesus had a discourse with the Pharisees about who He is, He travels across the Sea of Galilee to retire in the mountains with the disciples for a time of teaching and refreshing.
However, he would be alone with his students for long.
There was a large crowd following him.
They did not follow him because who he was.
The text says that they followed him because what He did.
He performed miracles that healed the sick.
The reaction of this crowd who followed a man who had the power to heal the sick was just an expression of our human nature.
By nature we look for things that are beyond or outside of us for help.
People will follow you if you are doing something especially if it is meeting a need.
This leads us into our first point.
*I.
**People come to church because of what the church does v.
1-4*
People will come to a church that is about something.
That is also why we have to be the church that has an agenda to build the Kingdom of God.
People are waiting and watching for us to do something that gives them what they need.
The text states that the crowd traveled to get to Jesus.
Looking at the geography it took about 4 miles by foot.
Think about that.
It had to be something for anybody to do that type of traveling on foot just to see a man.
Would walk 4 miles for nothing?
This tells me something about the church.
It the church is about something, people will come.
A church that is alive is worth the drive!
If the church is effectively representing Christ people will come.
But you know what the problem is.
The church does not always do what Jesus does.
We do too much other stuff.
We don’t act like Jesus.
We don’t love like Jesus.
In these days, people are smart and they are not going to come to mess.
Therefore, in the church there must be some healing, deliverance and victory in Jesus in here.
People are drawn to what Jesus can offer.
But can we, as a church, offer them Jesus?
*II.
**The Church should always see the needs of the people who come to it vv.
5-6a*
When Jesus looked out and saw that a large crowd had arrived, he said to Philip, “Where can we buy bread to feed these people?”
Here Jesus demonstrates his “Godness” by knowing the need of the crowd that was coming to him.
He knew the people were hungry do to their travel.
He understood there circumstance corporately.
He didn’t look for a single type of people.
All he saw was sheep without a shepherd and he was ready and willing to bring them into His fold.
As Christ saw the need of the crowd that was coming, the Church should see the need of those that are coming.
How?
First, we have to know that people are coming after what we have to offer.
They want hope that they can’t find anywhere else.
Second, we have to know what they really need.
They may want money but what they really need is training to get a job.
They may want to stop being abused but they need empowerment.
Thirdly, we have to know like Jesus our purpose.
Every church has its own purpose to fulfill.
We know by seeking the Lord.
Like Jesus, in order to see the needs we have to look.
But the problem is we can’t see the real needs of people because we are being blinded by things that don’t even matter in the advancement of God kingdom.
Everything in church is not Jesus and we can no longer be blind by it because there some needs out there that need to be meet and only the Church can offer i.e. *salvation of the lost.
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*III.
**The Church looks like these disciples vv.
6b-9*
When Jesus asked his disciple Phillip “where are we going to buy food for all these people?”
He was only asking him to test him.
Jesus knew the answer.
Just like when God asked Adam in the Garden of Eden, “where art thou?”
That was not for God to know, that was for Adam to tell God where he was in his relation to God.
Likewise, Jesus just wanted to know where Phillip was with Him.
When God asks us a question it is an opportunity for us to state our faith; where we are with Him.
Not only did Phillip respond to this question but another disciple did also.
Andrew responded but with a different type of faith.
Phillip response was that they did not have enough money to buy enough food.
He said they only had 200 pennyworth or denari which was 8 months wage which was not nearly enough.
His faith was on what he had.
Andrew’s faith caused him to look and find a boy with five loathes of bread and fish.
But it also caused him to raise a question, “what is this among so many people”.
Though it was optimistic it was also a questioning faith.
When it comes to faith the Church looks like these two disciples.
Most of the time the Church has a faith like Phillip, a pessimistic faith which is not really trusting.
His faith sees money and that was all.
A pessimistic faith sees only the available resources.
It stresses the impossibility.
It is in despair due to lack.
It is swamp by hopelessness of answer that is not favorable.
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