Words of Life|Pastor Balan Swaminathan|HIPM

Church Growth | Serving

We asked, Are we ready to serve? Looks like we are not, 
- As we are waiting for a perfect time to start - we said perfectionism is an internal oppression, causing us to fear in us, we need to cancel the internal voices we hear and speak within us saying, "I must start serving now"

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Church Growth | Giving

God wants us to be rivers, not reservoirs. 
Reservoir keeps water, but river gives out water 
Water in a reservoir is stagnant, but river flows 
Reservoir gets contaminated easily, but river is not

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Church Growth | Prayer

As three ingredients Heat, Oxygen and Fuel are required for fire to ignite and keep burning, Desperation,  Faith and Burden are needed for prayer to ignite and burn.

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Church Growth | Praise & Worship (PDSW)

Four Stages of Praise & Worship:
PDSW: Praise, Devotion, Surrender and Worship.
- Praise & Worship is not and outward act, it is inside out.  
- We cannot worship God with our mind, worship is a heart thing. 
- We need to know to move from mind to heart as the worship progresses

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Church Growth | Introduction

In today's modern world, church growth cannot be attained solely through prayer, preaching, witnessing, evangelizing, disciple making, applying management principles, implementing growth techniques, or incorporating modern innovation and media presence.

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Protect What's Entrusted

When I wrote this song " Ways of Escape", and sung many times, I realized the fact that Even though the Victory is Already Won, we need to be vigilant, well aware and cautious to protect our lives and our dear ones. 1. Joseph did not end the marriage in order to protect what was entrusted with him. - Ending or staying is not the question, what are you doing to protect what God has given in your hands?

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Escaping the Battle

The Message of Psalm 124 is "The Lord is the Defense or Defender of His People" 
- Bring the Lord, who is mighty in battle, into your situation
- The Intent of the Enemy is to swallow you alive
- But escape comes from the Lord.

The River's Journey

As the river enriches everything around it, your life will flourish when you draw nearer to God. 
As the river erodes the land, transports sediments, and deposits them to shape the landscape, God is actively removing what needs to be taken away from your life, including people, transporting them away from you,

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Love Separators

Paul talks about some of the potential enemies of God's love that are capable of separating us from the love of Christ in Romans 8:35-39 . We call them as "Love Separators" 
- Troubles of this World

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Stay in the Game

Those who stayed in the game had couple of things in common, they are: 
- Humility to recognize their weaknesses 
- They never allowed their present to dictate their future

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