One Makes a Difference

Uniquely Positioned

January 24, 2021 • Pastor Ken Cline

I make a difference. You make a difference. We make a difference. In this teaching from the “One Makes A Difference” series, Pastor Ken shows us that God has placed each of us in a specific place and time - around just the right people - to do our part in His mission. Have you ever played with dominoes? You stand them up side by side, make curvy paths, even stack them up however you see fit according to your plan. Then, when you’re ready to set it in motion, do you just start smashing and flinging all the dominoes everywhere? Of course not. All you have to do is tip the first domino in the chain. That domino knocks over the next, then the next, and so on until the planned course is completed. One touch makes a difference. If the first domino never moves forward, the plan never gets set in motion. Well, here’s the awesome part, in God’s plan for your life’s course, YOU are the first domino! You are “Uniquely Positioned” to affect friends, co-workers, and family members for God like no one else! The relationships you’ve made in your life put you in the perfect position to share the Gospel with them. I don’t work next to your co-worker all day – you do. I’m not there for your friend to confide in – you are. And when you use these unique positionings to share the Good News of Jesus with those in front of you, you start a domino effect; because when God moves in their lives, they can tell others in front of them. Then they tell another, and another until God’s planned course is completed. Isn’t it awesome to know that God want to use us to complete His plan! And he promises to be with us every step of the way. (Matthew 28:19-20) Remember, dominoes don’t set themselves up – they’re deliberately placed. You’re in the perfect position to affect those in front of you. Will you allow God to push you forward?

Navigating Discipleship

January 17, 2021 • Pastor Ken Cline

In the third instalment of Pastor Ken’s sermon series, “One Makes a Difference,” he continued to encourage us to be disciples. Whether we are ready to disciple others, or in a place where we desire to be discipled ourselves, this is our mission. We are called to get God's ways in us by being discipled and then replicate that teaching by discipling someone else. One, by one, by one. Discipleship is about getting from one place to another; from spiritual baby to spiritual adult. How many of you stop and ask for directions? Do you ask a friend, a spouse, a local? Or do you just try to figure it out yourself? I think most of us can say we like to do things on our own, even when it comes to navigating our spiritual lives. But why do it on your own when someone who has already found the way can help you navigate it? Let’s commit to discipleship. To be humble and teachable, so we may be discipled, and to follow Jesus and guide others, so we may be disciplers. This is my mission, your mission, and our mission.

Coaching Tree

January 10, 2021 • Pastor Ken Cline

On Sunday, Pastor Ken continued the sermon series “One Make a Difference.” This week was about discipleship—how we not only need to be discipled intentionally by those older and wiser in the faith, but we also need to turn around and disciple those younger in the faith as well. It was a great reminder to be more intentional in relationships and watch how that intentionality impacts the world, one relationship at a time.

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