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The Idiot’s Guide to Growing a Fruitful Church

The Idiot’s Guide to Growing a Fruitful Church. 1 Cor 3 :1-17. 1. Seeking spiritual maturity.

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The Idiot’s Guide to Growing a Fruitful Church

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  1. The Idiot’s Guide to Growing a Fruitful Church 1 Cor 3 :1-17

  2. 1. Seeking spiritual maturity • 1 Corinthians 3:1-2 But I, brothers, could not address you as spiritual people, but as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ. 2 I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for it. And even now you are not yet ready,

  3. Seeking Maturity • 1 Corinthians 3:3-4 3 for you are still of the flesh. For while there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh and behaving only in a human way? 4 For when one says, "I follow Paul," and another, "I follow Apollos," are you not being merely human?

  4. Super spiritual, sophisticated, have arrived Lowly, unimpressive, unsophisticated embarrassing message of cross

  5. REALITY

  6. The Corinthians • people of the flesh-sarkinos, • still of the flesh-sarkikos • People moved by entirely human drives • People moved by self interest

  7. The Evidence • Jealousy • Strife • Behaving only in a human way? • , "I follow Paul," and another, "I follow Apollos," are you not being merely human? • People moved by entirely human drives • People moved by self interest

  8. 33,000 Denominations

  9. Seek true spirituality • Pneumotikos • Sarkinos • People moved by the Spirit • People moved by entirely human drives

  10. John 17:22-23 22 The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one, 23 I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.

  11. Traditional Scorecard for Church Health • BUDGET • BODIES • BUILDING

  12. They came for the show But refused to grow

  13. Transformation • Christ followers • Growing in faith • Impact on society

  14. Roger McNeal in ‘Missional Renaissance’ • When the church thinks it is the destination, it also confuses the score card. It thinks that if people are hovering around and in the church , the church is winning. The truth is , when that is the case the church is really keeping people from where they want to go from their real destination.

  15. The destination is life..Abundant life is lived out with loved ones, friends and acquiantances in the market place, in the home, in the neighbourhood, in the world.

  16. 2. Exercise true servant leadership

  17. International Coalition of Apostles • In the NT this person is a strategos, warrior-strategist, a general or governor in his assigned sphere.  • When one is sent out as an apostolos, he is the full delegate and representative ambassador of his sender. He carries in his person the full authority of the one who sent him.

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  19. 1 Corinthians 3: 5 What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, as the Lord assigned to each.

  20. 1 Corinthians 3: 8 He who plants and he who waters are one, and each will receive his wages according to his labor. Masterchef or master waiter?

  21. Only Leader can do it mentality

  22. Transformational ChurchEd Stetzer and Thom S Rainer Bible as authority Size 50 or more Growth 10% in 5 yrs Percentage in cells Determine to 10% criteria Developing criteria Analyse data Published in 2010

  23. Vibrant Transformational Leadership • Passion for God, His mission and His transforming power on people • Leads by example and values rather than position • Centrifugal influence • Draws people in • Sends people out • Promotes the mission

  24. Mindset • Shifts from one to many leaders • Shift in value • Expand influence rather than hold it for self

  25. 3.Recognise that Church belongs to God and He causes growth • 1 Corinthians 3: 6 I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. 7 So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth. • 9 For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's field, God's building.

  26. Guess Who? Datuk Seri Che Khalib Mohamad Noh

  27. How much does he get paid? • 15 most overpaid CEO’s was just 3.1%. • The return for the 15 most underpaid CEO’s was 11.7%

  28. FCBC has grown rapidly because of my strong and anointed leadership • P 107

  29. If God causes the growth then … • Prayerful dependance • Natural disposition of communicating with God for the hope of transformation • Activities bathed in prayer • Programs in line with His Word • Equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, Ephesians 4:12

  30. If God causes the growth then … Equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, Ephesians 4:12

  31. 4. Build on the Christ foundation • 1 Corinthians 3:10-15 10 According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation, and someone else is building upon it. Let each one take care how he builds upon it. 11 For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ .

  32. 360f 10f Bedrock of truth-Christ

  33. no definite terms, boundaries, or absolute truths exist.

  34. Experience is everything

  35. Of Muslims, Buddhists or Non believing world • They may not know the name of Jesus but they know in their hearts that they need something they do not have and they turn to the only light they have and I think they are saved and are going to be with us in heaven

  36. Brian McLaren-TIMES list of 25 most influential evangelicals of America • I don’t hope that all Jews or Hindus will become members of the Christian religion. But I do hope that all who feel so called will become Jewish or Hindu followers of Jesus " You might call his a kinder and gentler brand of religion”

  37. John 14:6 6 Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

  38. Christian fundamentalist

  39. Psychiatric Folk SongAnna Russell • I went to my psychiatrist to be psychoanalysed • To find out why I killed the cat and blacked my husband’s eye. He laid me on a downy couch to see what he could find. Here is what he dredged up from my subconscious mind.

  40. Psychiatric Folk Song • When I was one my mummy hid my dolly in a trunk • And so it follows, naturally I am always drunk • When I was two, I saw my father kiss the maid one day • And thats why I suffer from kleptomania

  41. Psychiatric Folk Song • At three I had a feeling of ambivalence towards my brothers • And so it follows naturally that I poisoned all my lovers • But I am happy now I have learned the lessons this has taught

  42. « Everything that I do that’s wrong is someone else’s fault

  43. Which Foundation? • Needs • Need for fulfilment • Attractive • Sin • Need for righteousness • Foolishness and repulsive

  44. 5. Build using imperishables • 1 Corinthians 3:12 Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw- 13 each one's work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done. 14 If the work that anyone has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward. 15 If anyone's work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, but only as through fire.

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