Keeping it simple

Keeping it simple

One of the descriptions of success is scripture is described in 1 Corinthians 3, someone plants, someone waters. . .so neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but God who causes the growth.  It's an interesting picture of how things work, what matters and that God really creates what happens.  Paul told Timothy that we instruments for noble purposes.  Jesus told the disciples in John 15 that apart from Him they could do nothing.  The prayer is right, Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.  If the church? 

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