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Scripture Reading
Ephesians 3:14-21
The greatest growth comes out of something you’re avoiding
Introduction
1. Introduce Self
2. in Christ past few years For the past few weeks, we’ve been talking about what it means to grow in Christ.
We’ve talked about how growth happens in the places we want to avoid...pain, doubt, fear, sadness.
Growth happens when we’re rooted in the truth of the Gospel…that Jesus Himself is the way, the truth, the life that brings us growth.
Growth happens when we choose to serve others first.
We’ve been challenged to lean into the pain and lean on Christ as the truth and lean out into the lives of those around us.
2. Growth in Christ Series - Growth in pain…in truth…in serving others.
Tonight we’ll continue on in this series in .
So if you have your Bibles, feel free to go there with me.
It will also be on the screen.
We’ve talked about ways that we can grow…but we want to lay before you the very reason why
For the past few weeks, we’ve been talking about what it means to grow in Christ.
We’ve talked about how growth happens in the places of pain, doubt, fear, sadness…the places that we want to avoid.
It happens when we’re rooted in the truth of the Gospel…that Jesus Himself is the way, the truth, the life that brings us growth.
We’ve been challenged to lean into the pain and lean on Christ as the truth.
3. Gardening requires intentional and consistent care.
But the growth happens when we don’t see it, right?
When we
Prepping for message - “Oh! I’ll spend these 2 weeks growing!”
Prepping for message - “Oh! I’ll spend these 2 weeks growing!”
Fear of no growth became shame - My motivation for growth was rooted in the need and desire to impress people, rather than growing in Christ.
Tonight we’ll continue on in this series in .
So if you have your Bibles, feel free to go there with me.
It will also be on the screen.
Led me to the question that I want to invite you into tonight:
When I started prepping for this message tonight, it felt natural to speak out of a natural overflow of how I felt I was growing.
The natural question I asked myself was “Where am I growing?”
You can ask my roommates…I panicked a little that I couldn’t find an answer.
“HAVE I NOT GROWN AT ALL THIS YEAR?!”
I kept thinking…well okay, maybe if I just spend the next two weeks REALLY intentionally growing in humility, or in patience, then I’ll find something to preach about!
Which in retrospect is like…really?
As if I’m going to magically learn all the ins and outs of humility in 14 days.
So it wasn’t the greatest feeling when I couldn’t think of anything.
I began to blame it on having to do overtime at work.
I blamed it on conflict around me.
I blamed it on
realize that I have spent the better part of the last year growing in selfishness and pride.
I have become unteachable, prideful, and unwilling to admit that I’m wrong.
Anyone else relate?
Don’t get me wrong.
I’m not beating myself up.
I’m not saying there hasn’t been a single moment of growth.
What I am saying though, is that my growth for the greater part of this last year has been passive.
God will use our
It is actually an innate longing in
With that, let’s read from Ephesians, starting in verse 14.
I have grown this year in immense ways, but it has been a passive growth.
I’ve grown when encountered with my
These are the exact opposite things that God calls us to.
I made the assumption because I’m an elder here, that I was actively seeking growth in Christ.
Yes,
The Church in Ephesus
When you focus
- “This mystery is that the Gentiles are fellow heirs, members of the same body, and partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the Gospel.”
You cannot claim to follow Jesus and choose to devalue your neighbor.
You can not say “this person is more valuable than that person.”
Abide
You can not say “this person is more valuable than that person.”
is not just about you feeling happy-go-lucky that God is on your side and that He has a plan for your life.
There was this culture within the Israelites that there was something inherently significant about
A few weeks ago, I heard Pastor Trip Lee preach on what it means to Love God and Love your Neighbor.
He said that every
They were not significant first for their ethnicity.
The Israelites were never significant or set apart because they were Israelites.
They were set apart because God said they were.
Society has this
When we choose to say “This person doesn’t hold value for these reasons...” we do more than mar the image of God.
We mar our own image.
Do you know why
I am pleading with you.
Please do not choose to mar the image of God by choosing to devalue someone for any reason.
We don’t realize that when we gossip, slander, or even speak frustration
I am saying…it is not okay for you to choose to and be content with saying of someone "no wonder their single.”
Your experience with a person, whether friend, family or stranger, does not make it
“Wanting justice is not just feeling injustice on your own soil.
Wanting justice is feeling injustice everywhere.” - Trip Lee
I am not saying to forget your circumstances and just magically feel different.
The only thing greater that God’s justice, is his grace.
I am pleading with you.
Please do not choose to mar the image of God by choosing to devalue someone.
We don’t realize that when we gossip, slander, or even speak frustration
& 2 - What Christ has done and that they are also chosen, along with the Israelites.
2) - Paul says “God has called me to be someone to tell these things to the groups of people who feel like outsiders.”
- Paul says “God has called me to be someone to tell these things to the groups of people who feel like outsiders.”
1) - Paul was inviting the Ephesians to discover more of Jesus and His love.
A challenge to be rooted and grounded in love.
Growing in Christ is about gaining more of Christ, and thus discovering more of who God has already made you to be.
Ephesians 3:20-21 - “I ask him to strengthen you by his Spirit—not a brute strength but a glorious inner strength—that Christ will live in you as you open the door and invite him in.
And I ask him that with both feet planted firmly on love, you’ll be able to take in with all followers of Jesus the extravagant dimensions of Christ’s love.
Reach out and experience the breadth!
Test its length!
Plumb the depths!
Rise to the heights!
Live full lives, full in the fullness of God.”
But I realized taht
20-21 God can do anything, you know—far more than you could ever imagine or guess or request in your wildest dreams!
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