Only the church will do it.  And one day when you die God is going to look at you face to face and say, “What did you do with my church?”  And many of you will say, “You know what? I slept through it.” Don’t let that be you.  You’re turning your back on the only thing that Jesus ever built, the local church.  Wake up!  Wake up!  Don’t go to sleep.  Some of us are going to sleep with our time.  Some of us are going to sleep with our abilities.  You know what? I’m a creative genius.  Some of you are like, “That’s pretty egotistical.”  No, it’s not.  So are you.

Just turn to your neighbor and say, “Neighbor, you’re a creative genius.”  I can say that in complete confidence because we’re all made in the image of our creative Creator.  So we should use our abilities and gifts within the context of church.  It takes time to do that and then it takes talent to do that.  God has gifted you and me to use our stuff to bring glory to him and to touch people for Jesus Christ.  It is part of sowing with our life.

So when I sow my time, when I sow my talent, I am going to be blessed.  God is going to multiply all of that.  We all have different amounts of money.  We’re to sow our money in the church.  I can’t make you do that.  I hope you know that. I can tell you to; I can teach you from Scripture, but I cannot force you to become a part of that.