The Seed is the Process

Garth Heckman

The David Alliance

TDAgiantSlayer@Gmail.com 

The seed is the Process

 

Working for Harold Busse at Busse flowers… Hyacinths bulb… I did what he said and it actually grew. When I told him a few weeks later he looked at me as if I was the dumb kid! 

 

Harold Busse THERE IS ALWAYS A PROCESS YEAR AFTER YEAR

 

A process is simply a predictable, repeatable series of steps designed to achieve a specific outcome.

 

The Bible talks about processes… there is always a process behind biblical principles. 

 

But we can miss the idea behind process when we read scripture because it uses words like SEEDS.

SEEDS IN SCRIPTURE are seen as

The word of God - planted

Faith 

The Kingdom

Giving and Tithing

The Covenant of Christ body

Our personal body and spirit

AND THERE IS GOOD SEED AND BAD SEED

 

 

3 Types of Greek words used for Seed

Sporo - the actual physical seed

Sperma - the actual DNA of a seed as in the lineage

Koh-Kos - The single seed with massive potential 

 

2. Three Deep Theological Insights for Your Sermon

Insight A: The Mystery of Automatic Growth (Sporos)

 

18th and 19th centuries, wooden sailing ships left European ports to pick up heavy cargo (like tobacco, cotton, or sugar) from the Americas. To keep the empty ships stable on the journey to America, sailors filled the hulls with "ballast"—tons of local soil, gravel, and river stones dug up from European riverbanks.

When the ships arrived in ports like Philadelphia, Boston, or Portland, sailors dumped the ballast onto the waterfront to make room for the cargo. Hidden inside that soil were millions of European seeds.

• This accidental conveyor belt introduced famous weeds like the Common Dandelion,