Still One House

“For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, you are God’s building. According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I have laid the foundation, and another builds on it. But let each one take heed how he builds on it. For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.”

- 1 Corinthians 3:9-11 NKJV

Still one house

The Church is God’s building, not ours

“For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, you are God’s building.”

- 1 Corinthians 3:9 NKJV

“Unless the Lord builds the house, the builders labor in vain.”

- Psalm 127:1 NIV

The foundation is already laid

Carry the Vision

4 Moses said to all the congregation of the people of Israel, “This is the thing that the Lord has commanded. 5 Take from among you a contribution to the Lord. Whoever is of a generous heart, let him bring the Lord's contribution: gold, silver, and bronze; 6 blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen; goats' hair, 7 tanned rams' skins, and goatskins; acacia wood, 8 oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense, 9 and onyx stones and stones for setting, for the ephod and for the breast piece. 10 “Let every skillful craftsman among you come and make all that the Lord has commanded: - Exodus 35:4–10

Called to Build

4 Moses said to all the congregation of the people of Israel, “This is the thing that the Lord has commanded. 5 Take from among you a contribution to the Lord. Whoever is of a generous heart, let him bring the Lord's contribution: gold, silver, and bronze…

- Exodus 35:4-5

Compelled to Bring

21 And they came, everyone whose heart stirred him, and everyone whose spirit moved him, and brought the Lord's contribution to be used for the tent of meeting, and for all its service, and for the holy garments.

- Exodus 35:21

Committed to Finish

11 So now finish doing it as well, so that your readiness in desiring it may be matched by your completing it out of what you have.

- 2 Corinthians 8:11

Joined and Held Together

“from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.”

- Ephesians 4:16 (ESV)

Christ is the source

“Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were uneducated and untrained men, they marveled. And they realized that they had been with Jesus.”

- Acts 4:13 (NKJV)

Every member is essential   

“….. joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow….”

- Ephesians 4:16 (NKJV)

Love is the goal of all growth 

“…. so that it builds itself up in LOVE.”

- Ephesians 4:16 (NKJV)

New Wine

“And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the wine will burst the skins—and the wine is destroyed, and so are the skins. But new wine is for fresh wineskins.”

- Mark 2:22, ESV

“Now John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting. And people came and said to him, “Why do John’s disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?”

- Mark 2:18

God wants to bring forth new life and teach us a new way to live.

“I say to you, rise, pick up your bed, and go home.”

- Mark 2:11

'And as he passed by, he saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax booth, and he said to him, “Follow me.” And he rose and followed him. '

- Mark 2:14

We need God to transform us and teach us.

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

- 2 Corinthians 5:17

'Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.'

- Psalm 51:10

We might find ourselves in the middle of what God is doing.

'And he rose and immediately picked up his bed and went out before them all, so that they were all amazed and glorified God, saying, “We never saw anything like this!” '

- Mark 2:12