Materials for a Rebuild.

“Afflicted city, lashed by storms and not comforted, I will rebuild you with stones of turquoise,  your foundations with lapis lazuli. 12 I will make your battlements of rubies, your gates of sparkling jewels, and all your walls of precious stones. 13 All your children will be taught by the Lord, and great will be their peace. 14 In righteousness you will be established: Tyranny will be far from you; you will have nothing to fear. Terror will be far removed; it will not come near you. 15 If anyone does attack you, it will not be my doing; whoever attacks you will surrender to you.

The New International Version (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2011), Is 54:11–15.

9 For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, you are God’s building. 10 According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I have laid the foundation, and another builds on it. But let each one take heed how he builds on it. 11 For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 12 Now if anyone builds on this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, 13 each one’s work will become clear; for the Day will declare it, because it will be revealed by fire; and the fire will test each one’s work, of what sort it is. 14 If anyone’s work which he has built on it endures, he will receive a reward. 15 If anyone’s work is burned, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire. 16 Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? 17 If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, which temple you are

The New King James Version (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1982), 1 Co 3:9–17. For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, you are God’s building. 10 According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I have laid the foundation, and another builds on it. But let each one take heed how he builds on it. 11 For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 12 Now if anyone builds on this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, 13 each one’s work will become clear; for the Day will declare it, because it will be revealed by fire; and the fire will test each one’s work, of what sort it is. 14 If anyone’s work which he has built on it endures, he will receive a reward. 15 If anyone’s work is burned, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire. 16 Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? 17 If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, which temple you are

The New King James Version (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1982), 1 Co 3:9–17.

God is replacing the shiny with the weighty.

The question is not, “Am I attending?”, but, “Am I being discipled?”

Many of us believe in Jesus, we just don’t believe in his ideas. We believe Jesus as a PRINCIPLE to benefit us, but not as a PERSON to follow.

If you are being driven, it’s a litte “g” god that is driving you. The Spirit of God doesn’t drive, He leads us.

The most important question is not, “Did we win?”, but, “Did we faithfully represent Jesus?”

1. (Re)Mine the Scriptures.

2. (Re)Mine the Person and Teachings of Jesus.

3. (Re)Mine life giving, spirit-born relationships.

Who is challenging you to grow?

God wants to take the shiny things we’ve been propping our ministry up with and replace them with weighty things.