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Determinate or Indeterminate?

8/23/2022

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We are in thick of gardening season, and I love it! Being out in the garden refreshes my soul and teaches me many spiritual lessons. One of the lessons I’ve been learning this year is the difference between determinate and indeterminate tomatoes.
 
Determinate tomatoes grow like a bush. Their growth is determined. They will only reach a certain height and maturity, then bear nearly all of their fruit at once.
 
Indeterminate tomatoes grow like a vine. Their growth is undetermined, meaning that they will keep growing and setting fruit as long as there is a growing season. If you prune them properly, they may grow over 10 feet tall in one season. However, if you don’t prune them properly, they will look like any other determined tomato plant.
 
These two main types of tomatoes have me thinking about individual Christians and the church body. Are we more like an uncontrolled, determinate tomato whose growth reaches a certain maturity and then stops? Or are we more like an indeterminate tomato plant, who with intentional pruning from the Master Gardener—Jesus—keep growing and maturing and setting fruit as long as we live? Do we continue to excel more and more?
 
If we are going to be a church that fulfills our vision of deep roots and ​bearing fruit, we have to grow both as individuals and as a church body.
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2 Peter 3:18 says, 
“But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.”
Paul praised the Thessalonians for their growing love of the brethren but told them to (1 Thess. 4:9-10),
“excel still more” 
To the church at Ephesus, Paul wrote, 
“But speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, even Christ, from whom the whole body, being fitted and held together by what every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love” (Eph. 4:15-16).
Through the growth of the individual Christian (member/joint), the whole body is built up. That means it's critical for us to decide to grow as individuals and that's not always easy. But in the Christian life, we never reach a level of maturity and stop there. Our growth is indeterminate. God’s will is for us as individuals and as a church is to continually grow in Christlikeness as we study His Word and apply it to our heads, hearts, and hands. That’s one of the reasons why I’m excited about this Care Ministry and the fall ministries starting back up. They challenge us to keep growing as we worship, make disciples, mature in faith, and reach out to our community!

Pray that God would grow our church body and mature it (Col. 2:19; 1 Cor. 3:5-9)!
Pray about how God would have you serve this fall! 
 
 
Living for Christ with you,
 
 
Pastor Justin
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10 Ways to Prioritize Your Marriage

8/17/2022

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Here are 10 ways to prioritize your marriage:
 
  1. Pray together every day.
  2. Be intentional about growing together spiritually.
  3. Have meaningful conversation with each other every day.
  4. Find practical ways to serve each other.
  5. Give thanks for each other often.
  6. Develop some common interests.
  7. Fan the flames of romance.
  8. Have regular date nights.
  9. Take overnight or weekend trips together – without the kids.
  10. Tune up your marriage regularly [by attending marriage retreats, conferences, or small groups].


List from The Art of Parenting Small-Group Series Workbook (Little Rock: Family Life Publishing, 2018), 14-15.
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25 Ways For Husbands to Lead Their Family

8/17/2022

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​Husbands, here are 25 ways to spiritually lead your family:
 
  1. Pray daily with your wife.
  2. Write a love letter that she'd like to receive.
  3. Discover her top three needs and over the next twelve months go all out to meet them.
  4. Buy her a rose. Take her in your arms. Hold her face gently. Look into her eyes and say, "Id marry you all over again!"
  5. Take her on a weekend getaway.
  6. Read the scriptures to her.
  7. Replace the "D" word with the "C" word! (D = divorce; C= commitment)
  8. Court her.
  9. Remain faithful to her.
  10. Fulfill your marriage covenant.
  11. Have a family time at least one night a week.
  12. Use circumstances to teach your children to trust God.
  13. Protect your family from evil.
  14. Restrain your teenager's passion.
  15. Set spiritual goals for your children
  16. Take your children on mission trips.
  17. Catch your kids doing something right.
  18. Date your daughters.
  19. Inspect what you expect.
  20. Do a Proverbs breakfast Bible study with your teens (fifteen and older).
  21. Hug and kiss your sons and daughters.
  22. Ask your children for forgiveness when you fail them.
  23. Pray with them.
  24. Call them to a spiritual mission to do what God wants to do with their lives.
  25. Persevere and don't quit.

List from The Art of Marriage Small-Group Series Workbook (Little Rock: Family Life Publishing, 2012), 40.
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