BUILDING
PEOPLE
(The Building Program of the Church)
Introduction: A farmer’s field is to
be reaped. All the reapers are clustered in one
corner. They reap and re-cultivate and reap and re-cultivate, while the
rest of field spoils with no one to harvest it. Not good business.
In
World needs workers to go harvest. Many have never heard, have no
Bible. No Light at all.
Our business as the church is “Building
People”. It is to go get people converted and trained into a trainer,
who
will go and do the same.
Text: 1Cor.3.9-15
What We Do
(What a
Missionary Does)--Ac.9.28
--We
go to other parts of the field to the harvest that is abroad.
--We
are an extension of the church in
--Our
business, our job, is to carry the grace and blessings of God given in
--EG.
Large corporations send it’s salesmen all over the world. The church is
to send it's salesmen all over the world.
How We Do It
--We
cannot do it by ourselves. God never intended for us to. It takes
teamwork, with team members mutually supporting one another.
1Cor.9.7-14; Rom.15.26;
1Cor.16.1-6.
--Jesus, Paul had faithful partners.
Lk.8.1-3; Php.1.4-8; 4.10-19.
Faith-promise
debt. People make financial commitments
every day, trusting that they will be able to pay them.
EG.
A church will go into debt to build a building; a person for a car. A
faith-promise debt.
The church can build people world-wide by faith-promise. The promise is
made to God to pay a certain monthly amount. “Well,
I don’t feel like paying this month.” But you pay anyway. It takes
commitment
to build a house.
It takes the commitment of a team working together to get God's work
done. We make a faith-promise:
1. To be praying for one another
2.To be paying for the work to be done
How You Can
Help Fulfill
Great Commission
1.
Catch the vision to work together as a team to build the Lord’s
house—to build people all over the
world.
That’s
your and my business in obedience to the Great Commission.
2.
Catch the vision to be rich toward God (Lk.12.21); to lay up treasures
for ourselves (Mt.6.19).
Same
reward goes to all (1Sam.30.24;
Mt.20.1-16). We can all be spiritual billionaires if we will.
3.
Commit self to the Lord to support each other in prayer, and each of
ourselves to be a vessel to go as able.
4.
Commit to a monthly amount, trusting Him to provide that amount, and
support a mission-minded ministry financially
(Mk.12.41-44). This will bring blessing and increase.
Conclusion:
--Building
people is the business of the church. We are to get people converted
and
trained into trainers, who will go and do the same. Some evangelize,
some teach/train, some send. All work together for the harvest.
--We
don’t want to all just work in one corner of the field. Whosoever will
must go to preserve the
harvest
world-wide.
--We
cannot do it ourselves. Takes one body working together as a team.
--Takes energy
and monthly commitment: just like working to make money to pay a house
note.
Example of a
Missionary
Budget (husband and wife) (why missionaries itinerate--travel around to
raise support):
3
months to
3
months to
6
months of missed work: $12,000
Once monthly commitments are established
and these commitments are solidified, then
everything is in place for the missionary to continue the work in the
following
years, continuing to itinerate on regular basis.
Everybody giving a little faithfully,
monthly, is how we
go about harvesting and building
people in
other parts of the field. It is your seed and our life, and your and
our reward. If we all do
our part the work is accomplished of building people world-wide, in
obedience to Christ's command and commission.
2Cor.8.13,14