Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Chuck Swindoll stated: Most churches have programs and activities, but little worship. There are songs and hymns and musicals, but so little worship. There are announcements and readings with prayer but so little worship. The meetings are regular but dull and predictable. The events are held on
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2001
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Discipleship occurs only in community.
Very few people are expert in anything all by themselves. They need a supporting community. Do you know a good musician who was not trained, nurtured and sustained by the music community? Show me an athlete who achieves excellence all alone, apart from the
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Feb 21, 2006
"In a revealing poll, almost all (97 percent) who rate their communication with their partner as excellent are happily married, compared to only 56 percent who rate their communication as poor. The poll concluded, ’In an era of increasingly fragile marriages, a couple’s ability to communicate is
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 9, 2002
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In his book, Celebration of Discipline, Richard Foster writes:
“Worship is the human response to the divine initiative. …Worship is our response to the overtures
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Contributed by Ian Johnson on Sep 1, 2006
Recently I was watching a DVD about the Facedown project by Matt Redman, in it they explained that there was a time when their Pastor had become disillusioned with the worship, and the questions people were asking after the worship service. Like “What did you get out of the worship today” This made
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Kelly Mitchell on Oct 7, 2012
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Pick One
The purpose and intent of the church, according to Ezekiel 36:23 is to be used to prove the Lord Holy to the nations. I can only think of two ways which God can use the church to prove the He is Holy to the Community:
1 - When He provides great happiness, peace, and success because of
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Baptist
Contributed by Dan Erickson on Nov 20, 2000
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Henry Ward Beecher was one of the great preachers of the 19th Century. He was ill one Sunday, so a substitute pastor walked up to the pulpit as the worship service began. Seeing that Dr. Beecher would not be speaking that day, a number of people got up and headed for the door. The substitute
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 9, 2002
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“What we must see is that the real question in worship is not, ‘What will meet my need?’ The real question is, ‘What kind of worship does God call
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Contributed by Ross Cochrane on May 17, 2010
I was talking to a man on Friday about our Church. He said he didn’t like our way of doing Church. I asked him what he meant and he said that he could not see how a Church could have a band out the front and what appeared to him to be a concert going on and so many people. He said "That’s not my
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GOD'S WHISPERS ARE OURS TO HEAR
Bill Hybels' book: The Power of the Whisper:
"Throughout history God has spoken. For millennia, he has forged his children’s faith by promising parted waters, empowering unlikely leaders, declaring world-changing prophecies-and imparting last-minute sermons to
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Contributed by Dave Browning on Dec 22, 2008
Gordan Dahl: "Most middle class Americans tend to worship their work, to work at their play, and to play at their worship. As a result, their meanings and values are distorted. Their relationships disintegrate faster than they can keep them
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Contributed by George Rennau on May 24, 2005
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When my Dad was in the Korean War his job was stretching telephone wires across battlefields from forward positions to the commander. They used those lines of communication to direct the troops. In this way the commander had recognizance and intelligence to guide them.
If there were no lines of
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Assembly Of God
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SUSTAINING FELLOWSHIP- COMMUNION MEDITATION
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German pastor and theologian who was an enemy of the Nazis because he refused to go along with their state idea of a church that practiced the anti-semitism of the Nazis. In fact, he was a hunted man who upheld authentic
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