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Vision casting service About 65 minutes

Be Fruitful and Multiply

Pastor Erickson preaches a vision casting message from Genesis 9:7, using Noah stepping out of the ark and the tower of Babel to show that the church must not simply try to rebuild what it lost in 2020. He calls the church to bear the fruit of the Spirit, join connect groups that bring unbelieving friends among believers, and become disciples who make disciples.

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The message in 6 points

  1. Ready to receive the catch

    Building on a message about a net without holes, he says God adds to the church when the church is ready to receive and disciple people. Jesus called fishermen who were mending their nets and made them fishers of men, and Jesus taught by asking questions.

    1:20:09

  2. Stepping out of the ark

    The story of Noah is often told as a children's story, but Noah's family stepped out into a world where nearly everyone they knew had died. Like them, the church can stop and mourn what used to be, or rise up on God's promise to be fruitful and multiply.

    1:24:34

  3. Do not rebuild what used to be

    Noah's descendants built the tower of Babel to make a name for themselves and get back what they had lost. He says churches must not settle for getting back to their old numbers but take the church to another level.

    1:32:53

  4. Fruit must be tasted

    In the New Testament fruit points to the fruit of the Spirit, and love shows that we are his disciples. A fruit's goodness is only known when someone tastes it, so believers must let people bite into their lives and taste that the Lord is good.

    1:37:40

  5. Merge your universes

    He casts vision for connect groups as places where people feed others and not just get fed. Believers should build friendships with unbelieving co-workers and bring them among believers, because a story is easier to believe when a whole community believes it, just as Jesus sat at the table with publicans and sinners.

    1:43:54

  6. Disciples making disciples

    He speaks of the coming Movement Conference and the songs of Apostolic Collective as ways to reach the lost. He closes by calling the church to step out of the ark with eyes full of faith, join a connect group, and become soul winners and disciple makers.

    1:59:02

In his words

“We could worry ourselves to death about what might happen, or we could just stand up and say, you know what, it's a new day.”

1:31:57

“The vision of our small groups this year is not just be a place where people can survive, but they're going to be a place where people can thrive. It won't be just a place where you get fed, but a place where you can feed.”

1:43:54

“You gotta say it's worth it for me to be a soul winner and a disciple maker. It's the best thing that I could ever do.”

2:18:43

Taken word for word from the video, with punctuation added.

Scripture

He reads

Matthew 4:18-22

18And Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers. 19And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men. 20And they straightway left their nets, and followed him. 21And going on from thence, he saw other two brethren, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in a ship with Zebedee their father, mending their nets; and he called them. 22And they immediately left the ship and their father, and followed him.

King James Version.

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Genesis 11:4

4And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.

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John 13:35

35By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

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Matthew 9:10

10And it came to pass, as Jesus sat at meat in the house, behold, many publicans and sinners came and sat down with him and his disciples.

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Matthew 9:12-13

12But when Jesus heard that, he said unto them, They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick. 13But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

King James Version.

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