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Living Up To The Name Of Your Church.
Contributed by Robert Laymance on Mar 4, 2001 (message contributor)
Summary: This Message was Specifically Targeted to Our Church. However, your Church Name says something about the People INSIDE!
Some Churches take their Names after founding families, some after Biblical text, and some after the geographical areas. The Name of your Church should live up to the Scriptural facts and be operated under the direction of the Holy Spirit, qualified persons, and the Body of the Local Assembly.
CALVARY MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH; a lot to live up to if you try to do it on your own. But thanks be unto God that He is there to help Us along the way!
1. CALVARY...luke.23:33...matt.27:33...
a. the place where Jesus was sacrificed..
b. the price of our sins was satisfied..
c. the power of God was there...
2. MISSIONARY...acts.1:8...acts.ch13...
a. they are saved people...
b. they are sent persons...
c. they are supplied persons..
( the Church supplies the substances and the Savior supplies the Spirit..)
3. BAPTIST...matt.3:5-11...
a. instructed by Christ...
b. illustrates the conversion...
c. identifies a change..
( an outward confession of an inward experience..)
4. CHURCH....a called out people...
a. illustrated by Israel leaving Eygpt..
b. incorporated into the Body of Christ...
c. illuminated by the Holy Ghost...
The Church is referred to in the Scriptures as a Body, a Bride, a Believer, and a Building.
Have you been to the place called Calvary, if so you are a Missionary wherever you go, has there been a real Change in your lifestyle since Baptism, that is the crucifixion of the old nature, and do you belong to the REAL CHURCH!!!
