5 Things God Uses to Grow Your Faith — 1.13.19 Sermon

The opening message of the series 5 Things God Uses to Grow Your Faith , built on a simple observation: what astonished Jesus in the Gospels was never obedience but audacious faith . Danny Cox argues that the break in Eden was a failure of trust, not merely disobedience—and that all of Scripture is God re-earning that trust before asking for obedience. The center is Matthew 8: a leper Jesus is willing to touch, and a Roman centurion whose confidence is the one thing the New Testament says "amazed" Jesus. From there it previews the five recurring ingredients the series will trace—pivotal relationships, practical teaching, spiritual disciplines, pivotal circumstances, and personal ministry.