Tag: deeper
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Taking a Deeper Look: What is Necessary to Be Church?
Love… …as Taught in the Scriptures and Lived by the Early Church …as It is Lived and Practiced in the Typical American Congregation The Greatest Commandment: To Love God with all one’s heart… and to love others as oneself…The New Command:To love one another as Jesus has loved you…Means God’s love must be the aim…
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More Christ Intentions for His Church
“…I will build My Church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.” (Matthew 16:18) Each is Committed to Cultivate a Deeper Communion with God This Communion will lead each to study and pray the Word of God, asking God to make His word alive in their lives (not just as a concept)…
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“Way of Life” is to be “The Way of the Church”
There are a number of places in Paul’s letters where he assumes that believers have enough information about theology and ethics [how to live] that he can simply allude to the principles that they learned, received and were taught …. Arthur G. Patzia,Ephesians, Colossians, Philemon What a shame that many intellectuals cannot look at the…
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Differences in Pastoring (Continued)
Other Unique Differences Between the Early Church and Most Modern Churches Today Requirements to be a Pastor New Testament and Early Church: Modern American Church: “…we will devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word.”(Acts 6:4)“shepherd the flock of God that is among you, exercising oversight, , … being examples to the…
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The Need for Repentance (Continued)
In 1 Corinthians 5, we encounter a vision of the church not as one voluntary association among many [the denominational/independent view of the Church popular today] but as the covenant people of God; to be inside this community is to find life, and to be outside is to be in the realm of death. Richard…
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Why Church Must Be Community (Continued)
What is Necessary to Be Church? Love and Biblical Community How does the Church of Pentecost compare with the America’s understanding and experience of Church? How Early Christians Lived Out Their Understanding of Church How Most American Christians Understand Church & Christianity • Repentance as a Life Reorientation (4) Be Baptized: Surrender to God’s Spirit, more…
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The Church: What is Necessary to Be Church (Continued)?
Membership New Testament (Early Church):Community/Covenant Based Modern American Church:Feeling/Circumstance Based Familial Bonds And now we are brothers and sisters in God’s family because of the blood of Jesus,(Hebrews 10:19) For through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father. So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow…
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The Necessity of Covenant (Continued)
As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.. 1 Peter 2:9-10 (ESV) 9 But you…
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The Necessity of Christian Community (Quotes)
To face the future, we must look to the past—to Christ’s preparation of His disciples, and to the early church that met daily in homes for teaching of the apostle’s doctrine, fellowship, worship, and prayer. Certainly, there were leaders, but the emphasis of Acts 2 was community, dynamic community in which all the people were…
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Church Membership In The Early Church
Membership is not to be confused with membership to a club, an organization, or even a spiritual organization. This membership is to God Himself, and His People in the most personal, and supernatural way imaginable. Members become members of Christ and His brethren, covenanting their lives to a specific people, in a specific place, to…