Plant & Water

Ambition and impatience can blur the boundaries of authority.

I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God has been making it grow.
— 1 Corinthians 3:6

Paul is making the point that our worship focus must be directed toward God, not men. But maybe there's another message: that we can be too occupied with making spiritual things happen — God's work — when we should be creating the right conditions for those things to happen.

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