Faithful Stewards | House Church

Amen Podcast

Alex Wilson

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

5 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

What does it really mean to be a faithful leader in God's church?

In this powerful message from 1 Corinthians 4:1-6, we dive deep into what biblical leadership actually looks like. Spoiler alert: it's not about being the captain of the ship or seeking approval from others.

Paul reveals that church leaders are called to be "under-rowers" - the lowest servants on the boat - whose only job is to faithfully bring God's treasures from His storehouse (the Word) to His people. No adding their own spin, no taking ingredients out, just pure faithfulness to what God has already provided.

Key takeaways:

* Why seeking human approval (or even self-approval) misses the point entirely

* How God will reveal everything hidden in darkness on judgment day

* Why taking sin seriously is actually an act of love for the church

* The difference between living as citizens of heaven vs. blending in with the culture around us

* How Christ became the ultimate faithful steward, paying our debt with His life

The challenge: If we want to change our communities, we can't live and act like our communities. We're called to be IN the world, but not OF the world.

This isn't your typical Sunday morning message - it's raw, real, and challenges us to live with eternal perspective in a culture that's obsessed with temporary approval.

Recorded live at House Church Kauai - where kids run around, faith gets real, and the garage becomes a place of transformation.

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0:00.0	But yeah, we started a Corinthian series not too long ago, but we took a little break.
0:05.7	Just not because God told us to, not because of anything like that, I just really felt that every week I was getting questions about dating.
0:13.8	And Alex, who should I date?
0:15.3	What's how should dating look?
0:16.4	And so I was like, why don't we just like hit two birds once going and go through Song of Solomon for a little bit?
0:21.4	But now we're back in Corinthians.
0:23.0	Say amen to that.
0:24.6	I'm excited to be back in Corinthians.
0:26.6	It's going to be really good.
0:28.1	And I hope you guys are, I hope you guys are feeling what it means to be a church on Kauai.
0:35.9	When we started in Howl's church, we were just kind of like an over-glorified big youth group for young adults.
0:43.9	And not because we set out to be that way, we actually started House Church with the intention of reaching young families.
0:50.2	But what God brought to us was young people.
0:53.2	How do you know that God doesn't often bring us what we intend
0:56.6	Him to bring us.
0:58.2	Sometimes he brings us what he wants for his will.
1:02.2	Amen?
1:03.0	So a bunch of young adults showed up.
1:05.6	And then we're also going to church in the morning and going to house church at night.
1:09.7	And it was kind of like this like extra supplemental thing. And so we decided, okay, after two years of doing that, we're like, I think we just want to be a church. Like we don't want to be a youth group. We want to be a church. We want to change Kauai. We want to do what other churches are not doing and kind of fill our gap with all the church don't choir
1:28.1	doing great stuff, but we want to answer the needs that aren't being answered.
1:32.3	And so the simplest thing that we could do to try to move in that direction was switch
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