Bethel of Arnold

Discipleship is not an event. It isn't an encounter or an experience. Engage culture and community. Establish Biblical foundations. Equip believers to minister. Empower disciples to make disciples. Our focus will be on the first part of the process, ENGAGE. In Luke 15, Jesus tells three parables which help us understand what it looks like to engage the lost.

muchness: the greatness of quantity, degree, or extent. Each voice will have a different set of frequencies and a different set of strengths at each frequency. That brings us to a remarkable fact, each voice, like a fingerprint, is unique. No person on Earth has your voice. No person on Earth can praise your praise.

What is a WikiChurch?  To answer that we must also answer, "What is a Disciple?". What did Jesus mean when He said, "Come follow me and I'll teach you to be fishers of men"? This is the beginning of our journey into the multiplication process.

Generation unto generation shall celebrate thy works, And thy mighty deeds shall they tell: Psalm 145:4 The Emphasized Bible How long will you hold on to your promise? How can you go from being blessed to having that blessing multiplied?

Multiplication is an operation that represents the basic idea of repeated addition of the same number. The multiplied numbers are called the factors, and the result obtained after the multiplication of two or more numbers is known as the product of those numbers. God is a God of multiplication. God uses the process to create a product.

What is a minister?  Have we forgotten the true meaning of minister? Tonight, we look at what the true meaning of minister is as we are EQUIPPED for the work of the ministry.

How do you navigate life's potholes when you cannot see the way?  

For the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ... equip: to furnish for service or action by appropriate provisioning

On a Sunday that many look forward to all year, we look to see what is BEYOND the Bowl.

How will we fulfill the Great Commission?  When the church is Multiplied.

And I am certain that God, who began the good work within you, will continue his work until it is finally finished on the day when Christ Jesus returns. Philippians 1:6 NLT Your promise may not have happened YET, but it doesn't change the promise!

David was distressed.  He was discouraged. "God, what do I do?  Do I pursue?  Will I overtake?" God answered, Pursue, Overtake and Recover All!"

why: For what purpose, reason, or cause; with what intention, justification, or motive. We all more than likely know the what, but we might need to be reminded of the why.

Abraham is 99 years old: and has got a promise from God. “If you'll be My friend and walk with Me, I will multiply you greatly.” But, Sarah sees the issue. She sees the reality. Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age; and Sarah had passed the age of childbearing. Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, “After I have grown old, shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?” T...

Therefore, brethren, stand fast and hold the traditions which you were taught, whether by word or our epistle. 2 Thessalonians 2:15 NKJV tradition: the handing down of information, beliefs, and customs by word of mouth or by example from one generation to another without written instruction Is it a tradition or something more?

together: in or into one place, mass, collection, or group 2. in a body: as a group How far are you willing to go, to be together?

The Grinch hated Christmas! The whole Christmas season! Now, please don't ask why. No one quite knows the reason. It could be his head wasn't screwed on just right. It could be, perhaps, that his shoes were too tight. But I think that the most likely reason of all, may have been that his heart was two sizes too small. In all of your guarding, guard your heart, from it flow the issues of life.

There wasn't anything new or special about the sand. He wasn't in a new place. He'd more than likely observed bushes burning before, it was the back side of the desert after all. It wasn't the where, it was the WHO.

But concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, you have no need that I should write to you. For you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night. It's the most wonderful time of the year! 'Tis the Season 

A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted... A time for everything but to quit.   What will you do with your days?

Jeremiah was...no, not a bullfrog. Jeremiah is known as the weeping prophet. 40 years of preaching the same message, repent, only to have the people he loved reject him. But before any of that happened, God spoke these words to him, "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you". What a promise.   But what does it mean to be known by God?

Esther knew the danger of entering without being called, without having an invitation. What's hindering us from accepting the invitation of the King?

And behold, a woman in the city who was a sinner... There is no other way to put it, she was a sinner. We do not know her name, but we know she was a sinner. She knew she was a sinner. Simon knew she was a sinner. Jesus knew she was a sinner.

Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him. Situations may not be what we imagined, but God is still faithful.

From the ground up, another way of saying from the first step through completion. Entirely. From the most basic level to the highest level. From the very beginning. From the beginning, we want God to breathe on us so that there will be life.