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Church Seeds

Name: Church Seeds
Brand: GoodSalt
SKU: ebsps0670
Price: 3.95 USD
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Description

A seed packet labeled Church Seeds stands planted in freshly turned soil, turning the language of gardening into a ministry metaphor. The packet bears the silhouette of a small church with a steeple and the promise “Warm and Friendly,” with “Net Wt. 1 congregation” printed below. The scene presents church planting as an act of faith: the Word is sown, a congregation takes root, and spiritual growth is entrusted to God.

The imagery echoes biblical teaching about seed, soil, and kingdom increase. In 1 Corinthians 3, Paul explains that one servant plants and another waters, but God gives the growth. This visual concept suits themes of church planting, outreach, evangelism, discipleship, stewardship, and ministry development.

Artist

Erik Stenbakken

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Keywords	church plant church planting church seeds congregation kingdom growth ministry growth symbol symbolic
Secondary Keywords	church discipleship evangelism garden growth outreach plant planting seed packet seeds sign soil spiritual growth
Tertiary Keywords	Christian metaphor church growth ministry development row seeds stewardship
Scriptures	1 Corinthians 3:6-9 Mark 4:26-29 Matthew 13:31-32 1 Corinthians 3 6 I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. 7 So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth. 8 He who plants and he who waters are one, and each will receive his wages according to his labor. 9 For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's field, God's building. Mark 4 26 And he said, “The kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed on the ground. 27 He sleeps and rises night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows; he knows not how. 28 The earth produces by itself, first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear. 29 But when the grain is ripe, at once he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come.” Matthew 13 31 He put another parable before them, saying, “The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his field. 32 It is the smallest of all seeds, but when it has grown it is larger than all the garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and make nests in its branches.”

Church Seeds

1 Corinthians 3

Mark 4

Matthew 13

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