Making The Home Team

Making the Home Team

“For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s field, God’s building.” 1 Corinthians 3:9 NIV

Intro: There are many people on a team.

I want you to think about the words “we are God’s fellow workers.”

Church is not an event you attend.

It is a team you belong to.

It is a relationship with God.

And it is a relationship with the people you are connected with in your home church.

It is a group you are part of.

It is not an event you attend it is the home team you play on and the team you belong to.

God wants you to understand the significance of connecting with other believers in a home church.

He gives us four Scriptures on how a church is like a team.

He says it’s like being one of the stone block that are used to build God’s temple.

It’s like being a body part in a body.

It’s like being connected to a fruit tree or to a vine.

And it’s like being a family member of a family.

Each of these four examples have profound power and meaning and importance

when you understand what it means to be connected that deeply on a team.

What are the requirements to be on a little league baseball team?

Paintsville Little League signups were March 5th.

The League Championship was June 8th

Tournament games and playoff games

All Star Teams and Travel Teams

To be on any type of team there is practice, practice and more practice.

If you don’t show up to practice what happens? You don’t play.

If your team doesn’t practice you don’t win.

A church is like a team but it has something even greater than other teams.

Connecting to a church family is different from other connections you will have in life.

No other relationship is going to last forever.

You might play a couple of years on the same little league team but eventually it will end.

We have couples in this church that have been married 40, 50, even 60 years.

But we know that not every marriage lasts forever.

You might have a relationship with a business partner but that won’t last forever.

There’s only one relationship on the whole earth…, you could have…, that’s going to last forever.

And that is being a member of God’s team.

Being a part of his church.

Being part of his Team.

Write these down.

First, what happens when I join a church family?

What happens when I become a member of a home church team?

MAKING THE HOME TEAM -- MAKES ME PART OF GOD’S SPIRITUAL TEAM.

He says it’s like being a one of the STONE BLOCK that are used to build God’s temple.

This is the first example the Bible uses for the church. God is building a spiritual temple.

It’s a living temple.

It’s not only made of physical stone block

It’s not only made of people.

It is made of the spiritual.

It’s a lasting temple.

Pastor’s come and go.

Staff members come and go.

Individual leaders come and go.

Ideas come and go.

Ministries and Missions shift interest, change their focus with the times.

Some expanding, some being done away with.

But the church itself is lasting, enduring, persevering.

The church is meant to be multigenerational.

It is meant to be passed down from grandparents to children to grandchildren.

The reason is it not passed down it the lack of commitment and loyalty to a Home Church.

Faith is NOT meant to be practiced alone.

It’s like being connected to a FRUIT TREE OR TO A VINE.

You need to get connected to it as member of a local church.

Reading these verses makes me think about my own life.

Here are couple things I have learned.

1. You can’t build it with just one person.

You can have the best pitcher but no good catchers and still not have a winning team.

You can have the best batter in the league but no pitcher and still not have a winning team.

A team can never be built on just one person no matter how good they are.

It takes all the different players to make a team.

To build a temple, the body of Christ, the temple of God.

“For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s field, God’s building.” 1 Corinthians 3:9 NIV

The phrase “God’s field” comes from the Greek word husbandry or farm.

?e??????, ??, t? Transliteration: geórgion Phonetic Spelling: (gheh-ore'-ghee-on)

It means: a tilled field

A place of cultivation.

A place where crops are growing.

Where plants are nurtured.

Where people are fostered and encouraged.

You are to be that person.

You are to be what promotes growth.

You are not the pitcher.