Rooted I
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· 8 viewsCast vision for series and what it means to be rooted/a changed life. Share the vision of Changed Lives. What it means to go from lost to found and found to fully formed in Christ. Saved from saved to. Highlights from the study - When we choose to follow Jesus He brings us from complacent to consumer, from consumer to connected, from connected to committed, from committed to compelled.
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What is “Rooted?”
What is “Rooted?”
I feel like we move around a lot more than our ancestors did.
The average person will change jobs 5-7 times during their working life.
Millennials will have 11.7 jobs in their lifetimes.
After 18, my Dad had about 4 jobs and my mom had 2.
We move (after age 18) about 9.1 times in our lifetimes.
Millennials actually move less because almost 40% of them (18-34) live with their parents. (source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/richardgano/2018/02/05/unlike-previous-generations-millennials-arent-moving-but-neither-are-other-age-groups/#5b2e8c197093)
In general, we all move around a lot more than our ancestors did. Very few of us “homestead” anymore.
Decades of data, including a more recent Gallup study, characterizes the United States as one of the most geographically mobile countries in the world. “About one in four U.S. adults (24 percent) reported moving within the country in the past five years.”
This is why, nowadays, churches are more like rivers than lakes. People join you for a few years and then jump out and join with another church.
Not that I like this, but it is what it is. :)
Even personally, we have a hard time slowing down and being still.
In 1840, Alexis de Tocqueville wrote in "Democracy in America”:
“(the American) is always in a hurry. . . . Besides the good things that he possesses, he every instant fancies a thousand others that death will prevent him from trying if he does not try them soon. This thought fills him with anxiety, fear and regret."
Sound familiar?
That being said, I hope that we can put down roots…
In Christ
With the Church
For our Community.
In light of the Scripture we’re reading today, let me say it this way…
I want us to…
Be rooted in Christ
Abide with the Church
Live as if (be rooted in the principle) that the Gospel is humanity’s only hope
Abide for our Community.
Be all in - grow to bear the fruit of the Gospel
To bear fruit, we must put down roots, and having put down roots, we must tend our crop.
Say this with me,
“No roots, no fruit!”
And when a great crowd was gathering and people from town after town came to him, he said in a parable,
“A sower went out to sow his seed. And as he sowed, some fell along the path and was trampled underfoot, and the birds of the air devoured it.
And some fell on the rock, and as it grew up, it withered away, because it had no moisture.
And some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up with it and choked it.
And some fell into good soil and grew and yielded a hundredfold.” As he said these things, he called out, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”
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“This is important…pay attention.”
“This is important…pay attention.”
But it needed some explanation.
But it needed some explanation.
And when his disciples asked him what this parable meant,
he said, “To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of God, but for others they are in parables, so that ‘seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.’
Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.
Important principle - there is no defective seed in the word of God.
Important principle - there is no defective seed in the word of God.
The ones along the path are those who have heard; then the devil comes and takes away the word from their hearts, so that they may not believe and be saved.
The reality of the WIDE path.
The reality of the WIDE path.
And the ones on the rock are those who, when they hear the word, receive it with joy. But these have no root; they believe for a while, and in time of testing fall away.
And as for what fell among the thorns, they are those who hear, but as they go on their way they are choked by the cares and riches and pleasures of life, and their fruit does not mature.
It is all about tending the soil...
It is all about tending the soil...
Principles of the Parable:
Principles of the Parable:
1) We are expected to bear fruit.
1) We are expected to bear fruit.
2) If we don’t bear fruit, bad stuff is going to happen (cf. ).
2) If we don’t bear fruit, bad stuff is going to happen (cf. ).
3) “Life stinks” is not an excuse.
3) “Life stinks” is not an excuse.
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As for that in the good soil, they are those who, hearing the word, hold it fast in an honest and good heart, and bear fruit with patience.
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4) Bearing fruit is crucial.
4) Bearing fruit is crucial.
5) Bearing fruit is hard work.
5) Bearing fruit is hard work.
Good soil, rooted, in order to bear fruit...
Good soil, rooted, in order to bear fruit...
What is “Rooted?”
What is “Rooted?”
From cut-off to claimed
From cut-off to claimed
From complacent to consumer
From complacent to consumer
From consumer to connected
From consumer to connected
From connected to committed
From connected to committed
From committed to compelled
From committed to compelled