SUNDAY LESSON, 3/30/25
GOD MAKES IT GROW
1 Corinthians 3:5-7; Matthew 13:3-9
We are in the middle of our Reach Bean Creek Campaign. We are endeavoring to reach our neighbors with the gospel of Christ by personally inviting them to our Easter service and activities. We have already been out in the neighborhood once knocking doors, handing out materials, and praying with our neighbors.
Every local church should have the desire to reach the lost and bring them to Christ. There is no ONE WAY to reach out to others with the gospel of Christ; the most important thing is to “REACH OUT”!
In our evangelistic efforts in trying to reach out to others with the gospel, we often become disappointed when we don’t see immediate results. We tend to think that it is up to us to save the lost. However, the reality is God only asks us to share the gospel—to spread the seed of God’s Word, and He does the rest. Like the apostle Paul and Apollos, we are to be mere planters and waterers, and GOD MAKES IT GROW.
1 CORINTHIANS 3:5-7
What, after all, is Apollos? And what is Paul? Only servants, through whom you came to believe—as the Lord has assigned to each his task. 6 I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God has been making it grow. 7 So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow.
MATTHEW 13:3-9
Then he told them many things in parables, saying: “A farmer went out to sow his seed. 4 As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up. 5 Some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly, because the soil was shallow. 6 But when the sun came up, the plants were scorched, and they withered because they had no root. 7 Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants. 8 Still other seed fell on good soil, where it produced a crop—a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown. 9 Whoever has ears, let them hear.”
