Am I A Church Member, Biblically?...Part 3...Thanksgiving Eve Service

 


A little fun from someone in the last row!  I made a joke about being the one on the whiteboard with the halo and therefore he supplied me this picture after the service.  It was a great Thanksgiving Eve service and the message of "us" came together at just the right time.  It is amazing to see God's hand working before your very eyes.  I speak so much to lead others in hopefully the right godly direction and then God steps in and I don't have to speak anymore.  His children fill in the words and actions.  That is what started to happen on Wednesday night.

I concluded the "Am I A Church Member, Biblically?" mini-series with a whiteboard session of the final 6 points.  We who are redeemed are saved into God's family.  The family of God is so intertwined and so much on purpose for God's glory and our benefit.

1) The provided spiritual leadership to the flock restores any wandering sheep.  Galatians 6:1

2) The sheep share with their spiritual leaders what they have been learning and applying.  Galatians 6:6

3) The provided spiritual leaders guard the gospel and shepherd God's flock.  Acts 20:28

4) The flock support the spiritual leaders with provisions to solely speak the gospel.  1 Corinthians 9:14

5) The flock gives accountability to God's word to each family member of the flock.  Matthew 18:15-17

6) The family members forgive, comfort and reaffirm sheep who have repented back to the accountability to God's word.  2 Corinthians 2:6-8

Read Hebrews 10:19-25 and 1 John 2:18-29 and look for all the plurals.  God's family is a big "us."  It is something to guard and fight for in our world of divisions.  "Us and them" tries to creep into the church and sometimes it is successful but confession, repentance, and obedience to God's word drives it back out again.  We need to be a strong "us" so that no matter what comes our way, we walk through it together as God's people.

Adam

 



A simple man serving a great God and the local pastor of Stillwater Community Chapel (stillwater-chapel.org). We are in our 38th year of full time ministry. God directed us to this local body of believers on the Western Range of the Rockies to grow with them in mission and mindedness of Christ.

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