Kansas City, Missouri, United States - Reflecting God – Embrace Holy Living - "Working Together" Wednesday, 26 November 2014 - Scripture: 1 Corinthians 3:1-9

Kansas City, Missouri, United States - Reflecting God – Embrace Holy Living - "Working Together" Wednesday, 26 November 2014 - Scripture: 1 Corinthians 3:1-4 But for right now, friends, I’m completely frustrated by your unspiritual dealings with each other and with God. You’re acting like infants in relation to Christ, capable of nothing much more than nursing at the breast. Well, then, I’ll nurse you since you don’t seem capable of anything more. As long as you grab for what makes you feel good or makes you look important, are you really much different than a babe at the breast, content only when everything’s going your way? When one of you says, “I’m on Paul’s side,” and another says, “I’m for Apollos,” aren’t you being totally infantile?
5-9 Who do you think Paul is, anyway? Or Apollos, for that matter? Servants, both of us—servants who waited on you as you gradually learned to entrust your lives to our mutual Master. We each carried out our servant assignment. I planted the seed, Apollos watered the plants, but God made you grow. It’s not the one who plants or the one who waters who is at the center of this process but God, who makes things grow. Planting and watering are menial servant jobs at minimum wages. What makes them worth doing is the God we are serving. You happen to be God’s field in which we are working.
9-15 Or, to put it another way, 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. Take particular care in picking out your building materials. Eventually there is going to be an inspection. If you use cheap or inferior materials, you’ll be found out. The inspection will be thorough and rigorous. You won’t get by with a thing. If your work passes inspection, fine; if it doesn’t, your part of the building will be torn out and started over. But you won’t be torn out; you’ll survive—but just barely.
"Working Together" by W. Talmadge Johnson
The congregation in the tiny town of Erin in central Tennessee has had many pastors, one with a record of 37 years. As soon as Pastor Bob and Emmaline Mitchell left college, they began serving their community and advancing the kingdom of God. They planted seeds in the little village as they taught and served in the public school system. God gave them five children, each of whom grew up, married, and stayed in Erin. After 22 years as a bivocational pastor, Bob focused his full time and energy on the church. Since his retirement, other pastors have come.
Now Jeff Stark is the pastor in Erin. He continues to plant, water, and cultivate. In this town of 1,700, the congregation continues to serve with vision. Their community outreach ministers to approximately 100 teens and children each week.
Paul had it right. One plants, another waters, and when they serve with one purpose, God gives the increase. Remember, “As God’s co-workers we urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain” (2 Cor. 6:1).
Hymn for Today:

"Sweeping This Way" by Mrs. C. H. Good
1. Over the hilltops, down from the skies,
Coming from glory—lift up your eyes!
While we are watching, and while we pray,
A mighty revival is sweeping this way.
Refrain
Sweeping this way, yes, sweeping this way,
A mighty revival is sweeping this way.
Keep on believing, trust and obey;
A mighty revival is sweeping this way.
2. As He has promised, so shall it be:
Blessings from glory on you and me—
Waters abundant, floods to o’erflow.
A mighty revival is coming, I know.
 [Refrain]
3. Prophets have told it: in the last days
Hearts shall be filled with glorious praise;
Our sons and daughters, both shall proclaim
The news of redemption thro’ His great name.
Refrain
Sweeping this way, yes, sweeping this way,
A mighty revival is sweeping this way.
Keep on believing, trust and obey;
A mighty revival is sweeping this way.
4. Tarry for power—this is our need.
Patiently labor, sowing the seed.
Soon comes the harvest—glorious day!

A mighty revival is sweeping this way.
Refrain
Sweeping this way, yes, sweeping this way,
A mighty revival is sweeping this way.
Keep on believing, trust and obey;
A mighty revival is sweeping this way.
Thought for Today: 

“Praying and working to the best of our abililty are important aspects of faithful Christian living"(Session Truth).
Please Pray:
For the compassionate ministries among the poor and in disaster areas of Mesoamerica.
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