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What Kind Of Member Does Your Church Need?
Contributed by Tony Cansler on May 1, 2001 (message contributor)
Summary: A Message to Church Members
What kind of member does your church need?
Psalms 1:1-3
“Blessed” (Saved)
Joh 3:7 “Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.”
“walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly”(Separated & an example)
II Cor 5:17 “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.”
I Tim 4:12” Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.”
“nor standeth in the way of sinners”(Helps others & Loves others)
Eze 3:18-20
Discord, Carnal Christians, Defeated Christians, Backsliders
(18)When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.(19) Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.(20) Again, When a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumbling-block before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
1Jo 4:11 “Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.”
“nor siteth in the seat of the scornful”(Don’t cause problems)
Pr 22:10 “Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease.”
“But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.”(Studies the word of God)
2 Tim 2:15 “Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.”
“he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water”(Faithful to God)
Heb 10:25” Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.”
(1) To Church
(2) To A good relationship with God
1Ch 16:11 “Seek the LORD and his strength, seek his face continually.”
“that bringeth for his fruit in his season”(Soul Winner)
Romans10:14 “How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?”
(1)Can’t be saved until they believe (2)Can’t believe if they haven’t heard (3)Can’t hear without someone to tell them