The Great Depression
Kaufmann’s Store
Western Pennsylvania
Frank Lloyd Wright
The Plans
The Reaction
“I thought that you would place the
house near the waterfall, not over it.”
To this Wright replied, “E.J., I want
you to live with the waterfall, not just
to look at it, but for it to become an
integral part of your lives.”
Fallingwater
Psalm 1:1
Psalm 1:1
Blessed is the man who does not
Walk in the counsel of wicked
Stand in the way of sinners
Sit in the seat of the mockers.
The #1 Challenge
in the Church today
Psalm 1:1
Critical People
Psalm 1:1
Psalm 1:2
But his delight
is in the law
of the Lord and
on His
Law
He meditates day and night.
Delights day and night
Psalm 1:1
Psalm 1:3
He is like a tree,
planted by streams of water
which yields its fruit in season
whose leaf does not wither.
Whatever he does prospers.
Planted by the
Water
The Mystery of Life
Isaiah 37:31
Take Root
Below
Bear Fruit
Above
John 12:24 Unless a seed falls
into the earth and dies, it remains
just a seed; but if it dies, it bears
much fruit.
Psalm 1:1
Growing Roots
Joseph in Prison
Moses in the Wilderness
Jesus after the baptism
The painful process
Faith
All things are possible with God,
and by faith we may lay hold on
His power. But faith is not sight;
faith is not feeling; faith is not
reality. "Faith is the substance of
things hoped for, the evidence
of things not seen. . . ."
Fruit
If this course is followed, others
will see the special fruits of the
Spirit manifested in the life and
character (FE 341-342).
Fruit Bearing
“You shall know them by their fruits” (Mt. 7:16).
“The object of the Christian life is fruit bearing,
the reproduction of Christ’s character in the
believer that it may be reproduced in others.
Bear Fruit Above
100 to 1
If we would humble ourselves before God, and
be kind and courteous and tenderhearted and
pitiful, there would be one hundred conversions
to the truth where now there is only one (9T
189).
Whatever they do
God Grows the Church
by Growing His People
Knowing
Growing
Doing
Take Root
Below
Bear Fruit
Above
Prosperous
Mary
Martha
Whatever they do
A Long Overdue Visit
Fallingwater
God Grows His Church
God grows His church, God grows His children.
God’s Word is life, It flows by day and night.
Plant me by those streams of Living Water
Take root below, bear fruit above,
Love one another, reach out to others,
That’s how God grows His church
God grows His children.