"These words I speak to you are not incidental additions to your life, homeowner improvements to your standard of living. They are foundational words, words to build a life on. If you work these words into your life, you are like a smart carpenter who built his house on solid rock. Rain poured down, the river flooded, a tornado hit—but nothing moved that house. It was fixed to the rock.
Another story. "God's kingdom is like a pine nut that a farmer plants. It is quite small as seeds go, but in the course of years it grows into a huge pine tree, and eagles build nests in it."
They were indignant: "It took forty-six years to build this Temple, and you're going to rebuild it in three days?" But Jesus was talking about his body as the Temple. Later, after he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered he had said this. They then put two and two together and believed both what was written in Scripture and what Jesus had said.
You are God's house. Using the gift God gave me as a good architect, I designed blueprints; Apollos is putting up the walls. Let each carpenter who comes on the job take care to build on the foundation! Remember, there is only one foundation, the one already laid: Jesus Christ.
Their (our) responsibility is to equip God’s people to do his work and build up the church, the body of Christ
So then, let us aim for harmony in the church and try to build each other up.
Matthew 7:24 Matthew 13:31 John 2:20 1 Corinthians 3:9 Ephesians 4:12 Romans 14:19
When words and actions agree, the message is loud and clear.
LIFEgroups – together experiencing God
Another story. "God's kingdom is like a pine nut that a farmer plants. It is quite small as seeds go, but in the course of years it grows into a huge pine tree, and eagles build nests in it."
They were indignant: "It took forty-six years to build this Temple, and you're going to rebuild it in three days?" But Jesus was talking about his body as the Temple. Later, after he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered he had said this. They then put two and two together and believed both what was written in Scripture and what Jesus had said.
You are God's house. Using the gift God gave me as a good architect, I designed blueprints; Apollos is putting up the walls. Let each carpenter who comes on the job take care to build on the foundation! Remember, there is only one foundation, the one already laid: Jesus Christ.
Their (our) responsibility is to equip God’s people to do his work and build up the church, the body of Christ
So then, let us aim for harmony in the church and try to build each other up.
Matthew 7:24 Matthew 13:31 John 2:20 1 Corinthians 3:9 Ephesians 4:12 Romans 14:19
When words and actions agree, the message is loud and clear.
LIFEgroups – together experiencing God
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