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2013 GLCC 17 th ANNIVERSARY SERIES I. INTRO II. WHAT EVERY CHURCH SHOULD ASPIRE TO BE: HEALTHY

2013 GLCC 17 th ANNIVERSARY SERIES I. INTRO II. WHAT EVERY CHURCH SHOULD ASPIRE TO BE: HEALTHY III. THE BIBLICAL SIGNS 1. THE CLEAR UNCOMPROMISING EXPOSITIONAL PREACHING OF GOD’S WORD 2. SOUND BIBLICAL THEOLOGY 3. A BIBLICAL UNDERSTANDING OF THE GOOD NEWS.

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2013 GLCC 17 th ANNIVERSARY SERIES I. INTRO II. WHAT EVERY CHURCH SHOULD ASPIRE TO BE: HEALTHY

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  1. 2013 GLCC 17th ANNIVERSARY SERIES I. INTRO II. WHAT EVERY CHURCH SHOULD ASPIRE TO BE: HEALTHY III. THE BIBLICAL SIGNS 1. THE CLEAR UNCOMPROMISING EXPOSITIONAL PREACHING OF GOD’S WORD 2. SOUND BIBLICAL THEOLOGY 3. A BIBLICAL UNDERSTANDING OF THE GOOD NEWS

  2. 4. IMPACTING BIBLICAL WORSHIP 5. FERVENT HEARTFELT PRAYER LIFE 6. PASSION FOR THE LORD 7. ACTIVE LOVE AND CARE FOR THE CHURCH Keys to Survival Read Jude 20. Your heart is a battleground. Jude tells his readers the best way to avoid the strayingsand twists of an unfocused heart.

  3. ~ FELLOWSHIP WITH OTHERS AND FELLOWSHIP WITH GOD ARE THE KEYS. ~ Encouragement from others and petitions to God are the safeguards against deception. ~ WHEN WE ARE ACCOUNTABLE TO A LARGER BODY AND IN DAILY COMMUNION WITH GOD, THE ENEMY DOESN’T STAND A CHANCE.

  4. It’s no surprise, then, that Satan targets our relationships with others and with God. It takes courage to live for God in this world, but even courage isn’t enough. ~ We must put ourselves in a place of safety by maintaining the fellowship of prayer and of the body.

  5. Never fall for any deceptions that would move your eyes off Jesus and your feet out of the community of faith. ~ Both are essential to a healthy spiritual life, and both are key to the mission of God. ~ To be effective for Him, we have to be effective with Him and with each other.

  6. ~ George Swinnock: “Satan watches for those vessels that sail without convoy.” 8. ONGOING DISCIPLESHIP Read Matt 28:18-19a. This is perhaps the characteristic that most churches somehow forget. ~ It is also the quintessential aspect and reason why the church exists.

  7. But we must obey the command to make disciples. ~ It will move us from just playing church to being a church. Making disciples takes vision and the understanding of Scripture. ~ It gives the church a purpose that forms leaders who grow other leaders – an outgrowth of their growth.

  8. This is why discipleship is so essential to the aspect of being a Christian. ~ We are called not to just visualize discipleship, but to do it; not to just talk about it, but to do it. Jesus’ purpose for His three years of earthly ministry was the discipleship and equipping of the disciples.

  9. ~ And they were to replicate themselves to others, so that the objective was every believer was to be an equipper, that every member a minister, that every Christian be involved in the life and gifts of the body to influence the world.

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