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What Is The Church Doing In The World?
Contributed by Elmer Towns on Dec 8, 2025 (message contributor)
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1. Looking At The Church Lesson 1
Contributed on Dec 8, 2025
How did Jesus want the church focused on His purpose?
A. WHAT FUTURE DID JESUS SEE? “I will build My church” (Matt. 16:18). 1. An entity, He begins – “I will.” 2. Didn’t exist then or in Old Testament. 3. Continuous development – “Be building.” 4. Uniquely Jesus’ possession – “My.” 5. He would gather them into an assembly. 6. Victory “all the ...read more
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2. Gutenberg Christianity Vs. Google Christianity Lesson 2
Contributed on Dec 8, 2025
Christianity involves both the heart (emotions), and the mind (intellect).
A. GUTENBERG CHRISTIANITY 1. Martin Luther initiated Protestant Reformation, October 31, 1517 A.D. against the Roman Catholic Church of legalism, and works salvation. 2. Why Luther? Others had the answer, but Luther had the printing press. Gutenberg invented it 79 years earlier, moveable type, ...read more
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3. Explosive Growth In Global South Lesson 3
Contributed on Dec 8, 2025
The greatest growth of Christianity today is in the Global South, and the Orient Crescent.
A. REEXAMINING THE MISSIONARY MAP 1. The greatest growth of Christianity today is in the Global South, and the Orient Crescent, i.e., Africa, South America, Indonesia, India, China and Korea. 2. Happening with church planting, i.e., second generation of original western foreign ...read more
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4. New Expressions Of The Church Lesson 4
Contributed on Dec 8, 2025
All believers in the church are intimately identified/indwelt with Jesus.
A. INTRODUCTION: ORIGINAL EXPRESSION 1. Gathered. “Where two or three gather . . . I am there” (Matt. 18:20). 2. House to house (Acts 2:46; 5:42). 3. Divided and grew. “The church . . . grew in numbers” (Acts 9:71). 4. Other places. “River bank” (16:13), “Synagogues” (17:2, 10), “public ...read more