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Co- Laborers With Christ/ Church Growth
Contributed by Pepe Gonzales on Oct 22, 2024 (message contributor)
Summary: 1 Cor 3:9-13 NIV ….For we are Co-workers in God’s service ; you are God’s field, God’s building.
Eph 2:10 says we were saved for Good Works…. The term Good Works Means “Good for passing Through”. Christians labor for God in order to Please Him, not to appease Him. Christians do good works because it Delights God, not in order to be forgiven.
Christians do good works out of a Love for God, not to make God love us, out of Gratefulness, not out of Fear.
We don't make ourselves Christians by doing good things. Christians do good things because they are Christians.
Most times because we have lives outside of the Church Life: Church work becomes a-lot of Sacrifice but I've discovered Christianity without Sacrifice is Only Religion
Sacrifice is another Form of Worship…. When Abraham took Issac up Mount Moriah too Sacrifice him He told His servants He and The Lad were Going up the mount to Worship The Lord… Sacrifice Is Worship
The work will not get done if The Co- Workers are unwilling to put in The Work and I Know it gets tiring “ the World is Run by tired People…….It Takes Sacrifice to Build A Church. “ Ive Been tired Since I Got Saved…..
We need Faithful Consistent Tithers A Tithing Church is a Sign of A Healthy Church; show me a Church where People are Not Giving and ill show you an Un-Healthy Church;
If The Church or Co workers don't Tithe or Give, it will Stunt The Growth of A Church….Why do we give money to the Church? The answer is because of God.
We give as an act of Obedience “ Since God doesn't need our Money we must Conclude that “The Tithe is what God uses to test Our Obedience”, God has invited us to participate in His giving to meet the Churches Needs.
We don't give because the Church has bills We Give out of Obedience To The Word of God and the Fruit of Our Obedience will build a healthy well kept Church That Glorifies God, Obedience, Love & Gratitude are Why We Give! We Give Because its God Way of Growing Us
Babies don't GiveThey Take… When i was a Child I Behaved like a Child i Stoped becoming just A Taker and NOW IM A GIVER…. 1 Cor 13:11 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
John 3:16… For God so loved the world, that He Gave his only Son… God is a Giver and His True Children are Givers; Our Giving is Proof of The Legitimacy of Our True Conversion….
2 Cor 8:8 God uses Giving to test The Sincerity or legitimacy of Our Love for Him (God)…
Also for The Church to Grow and fulfill its Purpose We Need Disciplers… We need People who will Work with People Model for Them what it is to Be A Believer and A Disciple
“We are Not DISCIPLES if we Don't Disciple”
Churches wont Grow without Discipleship The Apostle Paul told his Disciple Timothy 2 Tim 2:2 And the things you have heard me say in the presence of many witnesses entrust to reliable people who will also be qualified to teach others… Jesus” Matt 28:19 Last command before going to be with His Father was For The Disciples to Go into every Nation and “Make Disciples” We are Living Disobedient Lives if we are Not Discipling…