Wake the World Up to Jesus - wk3

"Grow"

Dr. Gary Singleton - Senior Pastor

Have you ever tried to grow tomatoes?  First you have to choose the right location so the plants get all the sun they need.  Then you have to dig out the grass and weeds and prepare the soil.  After all of that is done, you finally get to plant the tomatoes, but then you have to water, and fertilize, and pull weeds, and keep the insects and the birds away. 
 
That’s a lot of work!  Wouldn’t it be nice if all you had to do is stick a tomato plant in a bag of potting soil and a few weeks later you had tomatoes?
 
Well, just like it takes work to grow tomatoes, there is work involved in growing as a follower of Jesus.  Being a disciple requires more than just making a decision to become a Christian.  We have to take personal responsibility to grow in our faith through practicing the spiritual disciplines.
 
But what exactly does that look like?  Paul describes it for us in Romans 12:1-2.  Do you want to be a disciple who is waking the world up to Jesus?