“The Great Master Gardener, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, in a wonderful providence with his own hand, planted me here, where by his grace, in this part of his vineyard, I grow; and here I will abide till the great master of the vineyard think fit to transplant me.” Samuel Rutherford, The Loveliness …
Bryan Chapell reminds us that means of grace are not means to grace. We don’t participate in the to get something, but because we’re receiving something.
This video is directed towards pastors and other Christian ministry workers, but is applicable to everyone. The danger of allowing a role to define your identity is that every role has a limited time frame. When the role ends identity can come adrift. Identity for the Christian must be found in the eternal.
An excerpt from Bill Giovannetti on Why I Preach Grace-Filled Sermons: When Jesus presented himself as the vine and his people as the branches, he left the enduring secret of fruitful living: “I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without me …
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