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Work It
'We are God's fellow workers' 1 Corinthians 3:9
It's been said that the only workout some folks get is jumping to conclusions, running down their friends, sidestepping their responsibility and pushing their luck!
Back in the day when Paul was around, the Church in Corinth was full of people like that - pulling each other to pieces, moaning and complaining, picking sides saying one Christian leader was better than another. So Paul has a word: 'The Lord has assigned each to his task. I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God made it grow. So neither He who plants nor He who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow ... we are God's fellow-workers.'
Paul puts them in their place, reminding us all that we are to work together with God, not fight against each other, after all it's God who does the miraculous not us! Where would we be without God? What can we achieve without God? God is the amazing one; only He 'is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine' (Eph. 3:20).
If you lose sight of what working with God is all about, try remembering the words of Christian speaker J. John who, when asked what he did for a living replied, 'Well, I work for a global enterprise with outlets in nearly every country of the world; we've got hospitals, hospices, homeless shelters; we do justice work, reconciliation work, orphanages, marriage guidance counselling... basically we look after people from birth to death and we deal in the area of behavioural alteration. It's called the church.'
written by Bob Gass
'We are God's fellow workers' 1 Corinthians 3:9
It's been said that the only workout some folks get is jumping to conclusions, running down their friends, sidestepping their responsibility and pushing their luck!
Back in the day when Paul was around, the Church in Corinth was full of people like that - pulling each other to pieces, moaning and complaining, picking sides saying one Christian leader was better than another. So Paul has a word: 'The Lord has assigned each to his task. I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God made it grow. So neither He who plants nor He who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow ... we are God's fellow-workers.'
Paul puts them in their place, reminding us all that we are to work together with God, not fight against each other, after all it's God who does the miraculous not us! Where would we be without God? What can we achieve without God? God is the amazing one; only He 'is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine' (Eph. 3:20).
If you lose sight of what working with God is all about, try remembering the words of Christian speaker J. John who, when asked what he did for a living replied, 'Well, I work for a global enterprise with outlets in nearly every country of the world; we've got hospitals, hospices, homeless shelters; we do justice work, reconciliation work, orphanages, marriage guidance counselling... basically we look after people from birth to death and we deal in the area of behavioural alteration. It's called the church.'
written by Bob Gass
