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Exploring the Quadrennial Theme

Exploring the Quadrennial Theme. Bishop Darryl B. Starnes, Sr., Presenter. Exploring the Quadrennial Theme. Fortifying Our Faith While Focusing on Our Future Through Worship Leadership Discipleship Stewardship. Fortifying Our Faith.

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Exploring the Quadrennial Theme

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  1. Exploringthe Quadrennial Theme Bishop Darryl B. Starnes, Sr., Presenter

  2. Exploringthe Quadrennial Theme Fortifying Our Faith While Focusing on Our Future Through • Worship • Leadership • Discipleship • Stewardship

  3. Fortifying Our Faith Faith is our trusting response to what God has promised or commanded. • Dynamic Faith • Head Faith • Temporal Faith • Saving Faith

  4. Fortifying Our Faith How then is faith fortified? • Faithful attendance to the appointed means of grace • The Ministry of the Word • The Public and Private Worship of God

  5. Fortifying Our Faith

  6. Fortifying Our Faith

  7. Focusing on Our Future Our Storied Past • From 1 Church in1796 • To thousands of Church on 5 Continents • The Freedom Church • Frederick Douglas • Harriet Tubman • Sojourner Truth

  8. Focusing on Our Future Our Promising Future

  9. Worship • Authentic Worship • Right Object (God) • Right Objective (Pleasing Him) • Right Relationship with God

  10. Worship • Inspiring Worship- In proper balance • In Spirit • In Truth

  11. Leadership • Transformative Leadership • Leaders Are Transformed • Congregational Transformation • Community Transformation

  12. Leadership • Empowering Leadership • Empowers others to lead and serve • Equips the saints for their ministry • Helps people discover, develop, and use their spiritual gifts • Uses nominating power to help people find their place in meaningful ministry

  13. discipleship • Disciple-Making • Evangelism: sharing the gospel • Baptism: initiating and assimilating new converts into a loving church • Teaching: training converts to obey the commands of Christ

  14. discipleship • Small-Group Discipleship • Henderson: the class meeting was the most influential instructional unit in Methodism • Beecher: The greatest thing John Wesley ever gave to the world is the Methodist class-meeting. • Moody: The Methodist class-meetings are the best institutions for training converts the world ever saw.

  15. Stewardship • Faithful Stewardship • The stewardship of our time, talents, treasures, and temple • The stewardship of God’s mysteries, our ministries, and our management of His Church • The stewardship of the care of souls

  16. Stewardship • Tithing God’s plan • For financing His Church • For the support of its ministries • For meeting the needs of the community • For the evangelization of the world

  17. Conclusion Isn’t it time?

  18. Conclusion O Zion Haste!

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