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Mark 4:26-29 He also said, “This is what the kingdom of God is like. A man

scatters seed on the ground. Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up, the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not

know how. All by itself the soil produces grain—first the stalk, then the head, then the full kernel in the head. As soon as the grain is ripe, he puts the sickle to it, because the harvest has

come.”

Identity in Christ

•Destined to Win

Overcomers

•Destined to Belong

Members

•Destined to Protect

Guardians

•Destined to Be Noticed

Influencers

Identity in Christ

•Destined to Move On

Forgetters

Identity in Christ

•Destined to Move On

Forgetters

•Destined to Change

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• Mark 4:26-29 – He also said, “This is what the kingdom of God is like. A

man scatters seed on the ground. Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up, the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how. All by itself the soil produces grain—first the stalk, then the head, then the full kernel in the head. As soon as the grain is ripe, he puts the sickle to it, because the harvest has come.”

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• We scatter seed

• We sleep

• Seeds grow … sprout … stalk … head … full kernel

• We harvest

Mark 4:26-29 He also said, “This is what the kingdom of God is like. A man scatters seed on the ground.

Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up, the seed sprouts and grows, though he does

not know how. All by itself the soil produces grain—first the stalk, then the head, then the

full kernel in the head. As soon as the grain is ripe, he puts the sickle to it, because the

harvest has come.”

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• 1 Corinthians 3:5-9 • 5 What, after all, is Apollos? And what is Paul? Only

servants, through whom you came to believe—as the

Lord has assigned to each his task. 6 I planted the seed,

Apollos watered it, but God has been making it grow. 7 So

neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is

anything, but only God, who makes things grow. 8 The one

who plants and the one who waters have one purpose,

and they will each be rewarded according to their own

labor. 9 For we are co-workers in God’s service; you are

God’s field, God’s building.

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• One plants

• Another waters

• God grows it

• We get rewarded

1 Corinthians 3:5-9 5 What, after all, is Apollos? And what is Paul? Only servants, through whom you came to

believe—as the Lord has assigned to each his task. 6 I planted the seed, Apollos watered

it, but God has been making it grow. 7 So neither the one who plants nor the one who

waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow. 8 The one who plants and the

one who waters have one purpose, and they will each be rewarded according to their own

labor. 9 For we are co-workers in God’s service; you are God’s field, God’s building.

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• No labour … no growth

• No growth … wrong labour – Wrong expectations

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1 Corinthians 4:10-12

10 We are fools for Christ, but you are so wise in Christ! We are weak, but you are strong! You are

honored, we are dishonored! 11 To this very hour

we go hungry and thirsty, we are in rags, we are

brutally treated, we are homeless. 12 We work hard with our own hands. When we are cursed, we

bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it; 13 when we are slandered, we answer kindly. We

have become the scum of the earth, the garbage of the world—right up to this moment.

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– Wrong methods

– Wrong team positions

– Wrong teaching

– Disobedience

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• No single city or province in Canada has a

greater percentage of churched people

today than a decade ago.

• Among existing churches in Canada, 80%

are characterized as plateaued, declining, or

disintegrating.

• Evangelical churches have failed to gain an

additional 2% of the Canadian population in

the past 50 years. In other words, we are not

even reaching our own children!

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• North America is the ONLY continent where

Christianity is not growing!

• Canadians dying without Christ: 165,000

souls each year.

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• 2001 Churchill Meadows Christian Church

Mississauga ON

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Mississauga ON

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Mississauga ON

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• 2005 West Coast Christian Church

Surrey BC

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• 2013 West Coast Christian Church

Surrey BC

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Mississauga ON

2005 2006

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• First 3 Churches – 60,000 households

– 150,000 contact attempts

– 3,850 agree to hear

– 800 initial attendees who were unchurched

– 1,600 attendance 2014

• How did that happen? – From 4 to 1,600

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• Believe the harvest is ripe!

• Believe you have to sow!

• Believe the seed will grow!

• Believe more seeds today means bigger

harvest in the next season!

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• Believe the harvest is ripe!

• Believe you have to sow!

• Believe the seed will grow!

• Generation #1– Believes It

• Generation #2 – Assumes It

• Generation #3 – Denies It

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• John 4:34-38 – 34 “My food,” said Jesus, “is to do the will of him who

sent me and to finish his work. 35 Don’t you have a saying, ‘It’s still four months until harvest’? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest. 36 Even now the one who reaps draws a wage and harvests a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together. 37 Thus the saying ‘One sows and another reaps’ is true. 38 I sent you to reap what you have not worked for. Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of their labor.”

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See You Next Week

1. a commonly owned direction

2. a common basis upon which that direction is owned

3. and a system that informs and motivates

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See You Next Week

Drop By Sometime

1. a commonly owned direction

2. a common basis upon which that direction is owned

3. and a system that informs and motivates

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See You Next Week

Have You Heard It

Yet?

Drop By Sometime

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• Change the belief

• Change the personal patterns – Change one person at a time

• Change the organization – Because the people are ready to stretch and grow!

– A pastor can’t take you anywhere you don’t want to go

– A pastor can’t lead if the church won’t follow

– The job won’t get done unless each person does what they said they would do when they said they would do it

Spiritual

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