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Biblical Priorities of CHBC . Evangelize. Edification. Encouragement. Making Sunday mornings a priority Getting involved in a life group Taking part in discipleship Finding a place of service in the body Contribution in corporate prayer .
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Evangelize Edification Encouragement
Making Sunday mornings a priority • Getting involved in a life group • Taking part in discipleship • Finding a place of service in the body • Contribution in corporate prayer
(1Ch 12:32) And of the children of Issachar, which were men that had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do…
About two-thirds of families with kids rely on a woman's earnings for a "significant portion" of the family's income, according to the liberal Center for American Progress. And while 20% of mothers worked in 1960, now 70% of kids are in households in which all adults are employed, according to the Center.
(Col 2:16) Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:
(Isa 58:13) If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: (Isa 58:14) Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.
(Gen 2:2) And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. (Gen 2:3) And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
It was a day to worship God as CREATOR • It was a day to worship God as LAW GIVER
(Exo 31:15) Six days may work be done; but in the seventh is the sabbath of rest, holy to the LORD: whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death. (Exo 31:16) Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.
It was a day to worship God as CREATOR • It was a day to worship God as LAW GIVER • It was a day to worship God as SAVIOR
The Resurrection happened on a Sunday • Pentecost was on a Sunday • Paul command the offerings to be taken
The MEANING of the Sabbath • The METHOD of Operation of the Sabbath
(Mat 28:9) And as they went to tell his disciples, behold, Jesus met them, saying, All hail. And they came and held him by the feet, and worshipped him.
It is to be a day of worship • It is to be a day of expository preaching
It is to be a day of worship • It is to be a day of expository preaching • It is to be a day of spiritual revival
The MEANING of the Sabbath • The METHOD of Operation of the Sabbath • The MULTIPLICITY of the Sabbath
(Act 20:7) And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight.
It is to be a day to be regularly observed • Its is not the only day to observe
(Act 2:46) And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart, (Act 2:47) Praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.
(Heb10:19-25) Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; And having an high priest over the house of God; Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;) And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.