GROWING WORKERS FOR THE KINGDOM (5 OF 5)
by Jeff Strite
Scripture: Hebrews 5:12-14
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Sermon: Growing Workers For The Kingdom (5 of 5)
Series: Growing As A Church
Author: Jeff Strite
Text: Hebrews 5:12-14
The comic strip "Peanuts" (by Charles Schultz) often had a Biblical theme to it. In one of his comic strips, Lucy and Linus were staring out the window watching it rain and Lucy says... "Boy! Look at it pour. What if it floods the whole world?" Linus says: "It won't. In Genesis 9, God promised Noah that that would never happen again. The sign of that promise is the rainbow." Lucy smiles and says: "You've taken a great load off my mind." And Linus answers: "Sound theology has a way of doing that."
Today, we're going to talk about teaching SOUND theology. And we'll be talking about how WE should be the ones teaching that theology. Hebrews says - if you've been a Christian for any length of time, you ought to be a teachers. There comes a point in every Christian's life when we need to grow up. And part of growing up is to begin to help others grow in their faith.
The writer of Hebrew was amazed at how lax Christians had become: "For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food, for everyone who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, since he is a child. But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil." In other words - God expects us to GROW UP! And the thing we should be doing once we've grown up is to decide to deliberately find ways to teach others.
Now, we need to realize that - back in the days of the early Church. They didn't have Sunday School; Mid-week elementary youth groups (JAM); High School Youth Groups; Summer Camps/ Family Camps; No publishing houses that would sell you printed materials... and they didn't even have church bldgs.
So, how do you teach if you don't have that stuff? I mean how can you teac ...
Series: Growing As A Church
Author: Jeff Strite
Text: Hebrews 5:12-14
The comic strip "Peanuts" (by Charles Schultz) often had a Biblical theme to it. In one of his comic strips, Lucy and Linus were staring out the window watching it rain and Lucy says... "Boy! Look at it pour. What if it floods the whole world?" Linus says: "It won't. In Genesis 9, God promised Noah that that would never happen again. The sign of that promise is the rainbow." Lucy smiles and says: "You've taken a great load off my mind." And Linus answers: "Sound theology has a way of doing that."
Today, we're going to talk about teaching SOUND theology. And we'll be talking about how WE should be the ones teaching that theology. Hebrews says - if you've been a Christian for any length of time, you ought to be a teachers. There comes a point in every Christian's life when we need to grow up. And part of growing up is to begin to help others grow in their faith.
The writer of Hebrew was amazed at how lax Christians had become: "For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food, for everyone who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, since he is a child. But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil." In other words - God expects us to GROW UP! And the thing we should be doing once we've grown up is to decide to deliberately find ways to teach others.
Now, we need to realize that - back in the days of the early Church. They didn't have Sunday School; Mid-week elementary youth groups (JAM); High School Youth Groups; Summer Camps/ Family Camps; No publishing houses that would sell you printed materials... and they didn't even have church bldgs.
So, how do you teach if you don't have that stuff? I mean how can you teac ...
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