EP 166 – STAGES IN A REPLANT Pt.4 GROWING

Happy Thanksgiving Week Bootcampers! We're back with another EP on the Stages of Replanting, today's EP focuses on the work God does of growing the church.  We'd love to hear from you, drop us a comment, email or voice mail.  Listen in and share your thoughts and don't forget to leave us a review on your favorite listening platform. In our series, we’ve looked at three stages in a replant: Plowing, Planting and Watering. Now we turn our attention to the last stage, Growing. Growing: The fully developed seed of the gospel springs up and is evident in the life of those inside the church. It is marked by changed thinking and living, and is evidence of God’s work in the lives of the people – spiritual growth. What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, as the Lord assigned to each. I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth. (1 Cor. 3:5-7) If you are faithfully fulfilling your assignment in plowing, planting and watering, you, brother pastor, are doing what God requires. He will grow His church. It may be numerically, doctrinally, spiritually, relationally. You may not be nominated for the church magazine’s top-growing church list; that’s OK. Don’t seek a reward from men; seek the reward that comes from faithfully fulfilling the assignment God has given you.     It may be time to update your website, if so, check out our sponsor at one eighty digital, they can get you up and running with a site, branding and a whole lot more, let them know you are a Bootcamper!   JImBo Stewart: [00:00:00] Are. Bob, I hope you're ready for the next episode. This episode comes out Thanksgiving week and we're continuing. We're finishing the four part series on stages in a replant. This one will be growing, which is appropriate because this week my waistline is gonna be growing, I dive into. Thanksgiving food and the holiday feasting begins. It kind of starts now, and for me doesn't end until January now. When I lived in New Orleans, it would start now and it doesn't end until Mardi Crawl is over, and so I have a little bit of a shortened feasting season, but the feasting season begins. Bob Bickford: Well, I love Thanksgiving and I love me some mashed potatoes and gravy. And, I do like pumpkin pie, Jimbo, but it has to be slathered in cool whip. Like you can't really, you shouldn't even be able to see even the slice of pumpkin pie. That's how I eat my pumpkin pie. But [00:01:00]man, Thanksgiving's a, a blast. It's a great time. JImBo Stewart: Yeah, so for the last several years we have developed a tradition because we don't have a lot of family in Florida, and so we've developed a tradition of some church members from redemption. That we go eat with them on Thanksgiving, and my price of admission is homemade bread. I, I was told I'm not allowed to come without making some homemade bread, and so while the boot campers are listening to this, I'm probably making bread at that moment. Bob Bickford: Well, I got some of that bread last year and uh, you sent it to me, I think. Did you ship it to me or did we, I think we saw each other and there was a handoff. JImBo Stewart: Yeah. We saw each other, uh, somewhere and we, we met up and I brought you some bread, Bob Bickford: no. Well, I was, I was pretty pumped about that, and, uh, I enjoyed the bread. So, if you can get some of jimbo's bread, just let me tell you, it's worth, it's worth the drive and it's worth the price. So make it happen. JImBo Stewart: There we go. All right, let's jump back into our series. We hav