Giant killing 3
What’s it going to take to kill the giant?
Paying the price – Shepherds bag
It was simply used to carry provisions. What’s it going to take to kill the giant? We need to take responsibility. The bag had a responsibility to carry the very things that would fulfil the vision. It had to recognise it had a part to play. You have a responsibility to the church you attend.
To pay for it. Compare this verse “Do not take a purse or bag or sandals” (Luke 10:4) and “When I sent you without purse, bag or sandals, did you lack anything?” “Nothing,” they answered. He said to them, “But now if you have a purse, take it, and also a bag.” (Luke 22:35-36)
Jesus was saying before, you were reliant on the generous hospitality of people. But now that I’m going, opposition will come and you will have to pay your own way, so take your bag.
You can’t own something without it costing you something.
Churches need to get to grips with money and fast. Actually people in churches need to let go of money and fast. There are worshippers trying to worship on the cheap.
To carry it. The success or failure of any church will fall down to whether the members have the character to carry the vision.
Forgetting what is behind and straining to what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus. Phil 3:13,14
There is very little difference in people – little difference in the churches that succeed and churches that fail. But that difference is attitude.
Missions Paul 