talks
Grow Up!
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Nick Duke, May 17, 2009
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Outline
NZ Idol Auditions
1) Baby Christians (v1-3)
Economy Class Christians
Carnal Christians?
Saviour not Lord
Immature Christians
2) Boastful Christians (v4)
I follow Paul, I follow Apollos
3) Putting leaders in their place (v5-9)
Two truths:
- Leaders are servants
- Only God gives growth
Two asides:
- God uses means
- We're playing for the same team
Reading
1 Corinthians 3:1-9
3:1 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 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?
5 What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, as the Lord assigned to each. 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. 8 He who plants and he who waters are one, and each will receive his wages according to his labor. 9 For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's field, God's building.
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