I’ve heard it so often, ‘It’s not about church growth, it’s about being faithful!’ Usually, it’s spoken defensively by someone from a church that is struggling. And what they are saying is that God cares most about the faithfulness of his people, and the numerical growth of the church is up to God. And I agree 100%. Paul says ‘I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth. (1 Cor 3:6-7)’ Growth is God’s work. We may be able to grow the church...

Textual Theme (what): Faithfulness is the grace by which God is totally reliable and its this disposition that He is working within us so that we may faithfully follow Him and be loyal to others.Original Purpose (why): To encourage the faithfulness of God to flow through our livesProposition (what and so what): Through the Spirit’s empowering God is enabling us to be faithful.Songs: BoW 359Galatians 5:22 (Daniel 6:1-16)Practical Outcome #6 = FaithfulnessBrothers and sisters,The media call them indecisive, unoriented and inconsistent. They say 20-30-year-olds belong to the phenomenon often referred to as “Generation Maybe”. The twenty-somethings of today have so many...