Church growth is about each of us growing in our relationship with Jesus, with the joints of the body in place both collectively and in our lives individually. And then as followers of Jesus, we must be willing to testify about our relationship with Jesus and what He is doing in our life. Our testimony should exhort/urge other people to take action and do something with it.

TESTIFY & EXHORT! Let me tell you about Jesus!

"A person with an argument is not match for a person with an experience."

And with many other words he testified and exhorted them, saying, “Be saved from this perverse generation.” Acts 2:40

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All five gifts found in Ephesians 4 - apostle, prophet, evangelist, pastor and teacher - were given to the church for equipping the body for the work of ministry. We are not equipped for ourselves. We are equipped to minister for the benefit of others, for the building up and fitting of the body of Christ.

You can be attached to a body, and not be attached to a head. It's called a CORPSE. Sometimes people are attached to a body, attending a church, but if we're not attached to the head, we will not be fully alive and functioning. We are all part of the body, with different assignment. We all need one another. We will not be equipped or fit, without all the gifts of the body of Christ operating.

And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love. Eph 4:11-16

SERMON NOTES: https://www.bible.com/events/49345701

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In order to move out of religion into revelation, we must "Think Kingdom!"

from performance to presence.

from entertainment to encounter.

from attendance to activation.

from consumerism to co-laboring.

from production to reproduction.

from playing to praying.

from America to Antioch.

Jesus did not die for us to attend a church and make it a compartment of our life.

Church and religion will program you. WE HAVE TO DETOX! We have got to become like the church in Antioch. We need a Kingdom paradigm. We've got to delete what we know and what we've seen and witnessed, and say, "Lord we need a Bible revival." We need to practice scripture and not just quote it.

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Something bigger than us, not “OF” us, was given to us so that God can do things that are bigger than us through us.

God wants us to understand the significance of what He's given us.

Church is never just ME & JESUS. The Church is a body, and we need each other. Gifts were not given to promote our independence, but rather to operate together as one body.

When every part does it's share, it causes growth and edifies the body of Christ, and builds it up.

"But to each one of us grace was given according to the measure of Christ’s gift." Ephesians 4:7

"As each one has received a gift, minister it to one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God." I Peter 4:10

SERMON NOTES: https://www.bible.com/events/49339229

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"You are the body of Christ, and members individually."

Everyone has a calling or invitation to walk into God's direction for their life.

We have been bought with a price, and we no longer belong to ourselves, but they are legally God's, and He determines what we do with our lives. Too many times we ask the Lord to bless our life decisions. It's so important as Christians to know the purpose God has for our lives living it in alignment with your calling - everywhere you go.

We can jump out of our calling because we lack lowliness, gentleness, longsuffering and bearing with one another. How long do we endure suffering? As long as it takes to become like JESUS!

"WALK WORTHY OF THE CALLING WITH WHICH YOU WERE CALLED!" Eph 4:1

SERMON NOTES: https://www.bible.com/events/49334497

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We think our ministry is about us, but our ministry according to God's standard is what you are supposed to do to serve and help and bless others. You and I all have an assignment to serve other people, and God is saying, "Fulfill your ministry!" He's given all of us gifts and talents for one reason - to bless other people!

We're going to have to make an account for what we do with all that He's given us.

Jesus is coming to settle accounts!

II Timothy 4:1-5, Romans 14:12, Matthew 25:14-19, Revelation 3:11-12, Ephesians 4:7-16

SERMON NOTES: https://www.bible.com/events/49331194

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There's a fighting style for us to learn.

Float like a butterfly - SURRENDER.

Sting like a bee - FIGHT.

We always want the Joshua 6 moment, but not so much the Joshua 5 moment.

In order for Joshua to get instruction, he had to get on his face, take off his shoes in surrender.

We have to surrender every day, picking up our cross, even when the plan is weird.

Joshua 5:13:15, 6:1-5, Daniel 10:5-11, Revelation 22:8-9, Exodus 3:4-5, Matthew 16:24, Luke 22:42

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The Son of God, the Son of Man will appear in the Eastern sky, right before our eyes.

And BAM! In a moment, we will be changed from mortal to immortal, from dying to never dying.

There is a day coming that Jesus will appear, and He will sit on His throne, and like a shepherd, He will separate the sheep from the goats. We will give an account to Jesus for our life lived unto Him.

We've all been given an assignment from God to PREACH, to DECLARE the WORD! We must be more concerned about someone's eternity than we are about our feelings. We must teach the truth publicly, whether it's convenient and favorable, or it's inconvenient and unfavorable, whether culture says it's good or not.

Jesus is coming back!

Is Jesus the King of your life?

When He separates you, will He separate you as a sheep or a goat?

Be READY! PREACH THE WORD! STICK TO THE TRUTH!

SERMON NOTES: https://www.bible.com/events/49322364

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GO FIND SOMEONE & TELL THEM TO COME & SEE JESUS!

Roads Church - we must not neglect our assignment that God has given to plant churches. Time is running short, and people need to hear the gospel of Jesus Christ, and the power of Holy Spirit. The world needs the truth! God is reminding us - Don't forget what you were called to do!

FIND someone who hasn't seen what you've seen, and SHOW them what you've seen! That they may never un-see! We have to find people, and give them the hope of Jesus Christ. This is why God has called us to go out and plant churches and to reach people in other communities. It's not about us! We're building His Kingdom - not ours.

Who is the last Nathaniel that you've said, "Come and see what I have seen about Jesus. He has changed my life"?

Who is the last Philip, the last Simon, the last Nathaniel that you've brought to see Jesus?

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Church we have taken scripture that was meant for a specific people, with a specific issue, during a specific time, and used it in 2024 as God's law, rather than recognizing it is the law and tradition of man.

There are no laws according to God that says that women cannot speak in church. Paul did not contradict himself in 1 Corinthians chapter 14 and chapter 11.

Women - you have the same access & right to the promises of Abraham as heirs of Christ, as the men do. We must stop comparing ourselves with one another, pushing one another down. We must be secure in who we are in Christ.

Be secure Woman! Be Secure Man! You must be who God called you to be.

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