"Learning Together" - Discipleship 101
This week I am preaching the third installment of a sermon series on the core values of our church--a series entitled, "Together." Our core values, what we call The Five Things, are: Worship, Pray, Grow, Love & Serve. It's not enough for us to say that we have values, it's not enough for us to put cool logos and phrases on our publications. We have to actually live, breathe and embody our values in all that we do. And in order to do that, we need to spend some time asking serious questions about each of our core values. Hence this sermon series, and the message that I'm preaching this week on the third of our Five Things: Grow. First, this isn't a sermon about how to attain numerical growth . We do track our attendance figures at my church, but our goal isn't to increase the size of the church. If that happens, we rejoice, but it's not the be-all and end-all of why we do what we do. The "Grow" in our Five Things is a short...