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- When you treasure Christ supremely, money becomes mainly a way of maximizing joy in Christ—for yourself (since it is more blessed to give than to receive) and for others, and you fund the spread of the gospel. Here’s an example of how treasuring Christ affects money and vision. The downtown campus is almost complete, and there is no debt on it.
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Dec 5, 2004 · What Is Treasuring Christ Together? Treasuring Christ Together is a multiplying movement of campuses, new churches, and a global diaconate all aiming to spread a passion for the supremacy of God in all things for the joy of all peoples through Jesus Christ, all founded on a rich, robust, refreshing doctrinal Affirmation of Faith called The ...
Oct 28, 2007 · Treasuring Christ Together means helping each other in a hundred ways to rejoice in Christ, and glory in Christ, and know Christ, and gain Christ, and be found in Christ, and lay hold on Christ, and finally to attain the prize of Christ himself forever.
- The King of The Kingdom Is The Treasure
- Selling All with Joy to Have Christ
- Renounce All You Have and Receive Me
- Loving Jesus More Than Family
- Through Salvation We Have Christ, The Treasure
Jesus said in Matthew 13:44, “The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and covered up. Then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.” Clearly, the treasure in this parable is identified as the “kingdom”—the rule of Christ, both in future glory and in the King’s present power and fellowship...
Two realities give this sentence its force. First, he sells “all that he has” in order to have the treasure. The point is not that you can buy Christ. The point is that he is worth more than all you own—or could own. Second, he sells everything with “joy.” In other words, the “sacrifices” we endure in taking Christ as our treasure are in fact no sa...
The little parable of Matthew 13:44 is applied by Jesus in Luke 14:33. There Jesus says, “Any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple.” Here the kingdom language has fallen away. The message is riveted on Jesus himself. If we do not find him more valuable than all our possessions, we cannot be his disciples. Jesus mad...
Again, Jesus drives home the message in Matthew 10:37: “Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.” The “love” in view here is not the kind of love God shows in dying for his unworthy enemies (Rom. 5:8). This is the kind of love that family members have for th...
I think it is fair to say that flowing through all four Gospels is a river that irrigates everything with its vitality. The river may be called “the unsearchable riches of Christ” (Eph. 3:8)—or more precisely, Christ, our immeasurably valuable treasure. Christ is present in Scripture not mainly as a dispenser of gifts to be cherished, though he is ...
Sep 27, 2023 · 1. Treasuring Christ through the OT’s Direct Messianic Predictions. In Acts 3:18, 24, Peter stresses that every one of the prophets, from Moses onward, anticipated the Messiah’s suffering and the days of the church. The OT, then, is loaded with explicit and implicit direct messianic predictions.
Exploring dozens of passages from the Old and New Testaments and surveying the testimony of leading Reformed theologians, Piper advances the controversial thesis that treasuring Christ belongs to the essence of saving faith.
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Treasuring Christ Together (TCT) is a multiplying movement of congregations, campuses, and churches defined and united by their common Mission and Biblical Life and Doctrine. The Mission is to spread a passion for the supremacy of God in all things for the joy of all peoples through Jesus Christ.1 The Biblical Life
