Point of Grace Worship 2.12.23 Sermon Notes – “TOGETHER – You can count on me! Can I count on You?”
“TOGETHER – You can count on me! Can I count on You?”
PoG-tionary
UP
OUT
TOGETHER
AGAINST
How is my ……?
TOGETHER is designed by God for us to mature! (grow, change, be transformed)
Do I need to change?
Ephesians 4 7 But to each one of us grace has been given as Christ apportioned it. 11 So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers, 12 to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up 13 until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ. 14 Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of people in their deceitful scheming. 15 Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ. 16 From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work.
God designed the church (TOGETHER) to be the context for us to mature! God loves us too much to leave us the way we are!
GRACE + TRUTH
TIME = TRANSFORMATION
Where is there going to be abundant GRACE mixed together with consistent TRUTH and enough time for my (our) TRANSFORMATION, “grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ”?
TOGETHER
What are the temptations when God is leading us to change, to grow?
Remember God’s vision: until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ. 14 Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of people in their deceitful scheming. 15 Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ.