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The Great Depression

Kaufmann’s Store

Western Pennsylvania

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Frank Lloyd Wright

The Plans

The Reaction“I thought that you would place thehouse near the waterfall, not over it.”

To this Wright replied, “E.J., I wantyou to live with the waterfall, not justto look at it, but for it to become anintegral part of your lives.”

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Fallingwater

Psalm 1:1

Blessed is the man who does notWalk in the counsel of wickedStand in the way of sinnersSit in the seat of the mockers.

The #1 Challengein the Church today

Psalm 1:1

Critical PeoplePsalm 1:1

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Psalm 1:2But his delight

is in the law of the Lord and on HisLaw

He meditates day and night.

Psalm 1:1

Delights day and night

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.

Psalm 1:1

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Planted by the Water

Isaiah 37:31

Take RootBelow

Bear FruitAbove

John 12:24 Unless a seed falls intothe earth and dies, it remains just aseed; but if it dies, it bears muchfruit.

The Mystery of Life

Growing Roots

Joseph in Prison

Moses in the Wilderness

Jesus after the baptism

The painful process

Psalm 1:1

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Faith

All things are possible with God,and by faith we may lay hold onHis power. But faith is not sight;faith is not feeling; faith is notreality. "Faith is the substance ofthings hoped for, the evidence ofthings not seen. . . ."

Fruit

If this course is followed, otherswill see the special fruits of theSpirit manifested in the life andcharacter (FE 341-342).

Fruit Bearing

Bear Fruit Above

“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 thebeliever that it may be reproduced in others.

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100 to 1

Whatever they do Prospers!

If we would humble ourselves before God, andbe kind and courteous and tenderhearted andpitiful, there would be one hundred conversionsto the truth where now there is only one (9T189).

God Grows the Church byGrowing His People

Knowing Growing Doing

Take RootBelow

Bear FruitAbove

Prosperous

Mary Martha

Whatever they do

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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 WaterTake root below, bear fruit above,Love one another, reach out to others,

That’s how God grows His churchGod grows His children.