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Responsibility with Power…
Before Peter Parker, the super-hero Spider-Man, went public with his newfound superpowers, he had a heart-to-heart conversation with his Uncle Ben. Sitting in the car, Uncle Ben admonished, “These are the years when a man becomes the man he’s going … Continue reading
Posted in Illustrations, Quotes
Tagged accountability, accountable, blessing, blessings, character, choices, hard-work, humility, maturity, position, power, responsibility, steward, stewardship
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Praying for One Another
“The hallmark of western civilization has been rugged individualism. Because of our philosophy of life, we are used to the personal pronouns ‘I’ and ‘my’ and ‘me.’ We have not been taught to think in terms of ‘we’ and ‘our’ … Continue reading
Equip
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Equipping is empowerment…being equipped means you have the power to do something. When we look at the Church of Acts we discover that the believers walked in the understanding that God equipped them for what He called them too and that He gifted the church with leaders to prepare them (or “perfect”) them for acts of service (that is using the giftings, abilities God had equipped them with) in the kingdom. The church today must regain this concept of being a place where people discover how God has equipped them for ministry and then are prepared, encouraged, and released into their calling (which is an ongoing process)… Continue reading
Posted in Podcast, Sermons, Sunday Morning Service
Tagged Acts, Church on Fire, equipped, experience, gifts, infilling, maturity, ministry, opportunities, participate, pastors, power, serve, serving, shape, vision
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Christian Ripening
OBJECTIVE: To help the congregation come to a place where they desire to become increasingly more mature as Christians (ripen spiritually) and hence become more effective and productive in their Christian walk.
OBJECTIVE STATEMENT: From this passage that Peter has written we can draw three principles that bring us towards and understanding of spiritual maturity. Continue reading