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Dismiss children for children’s ministry.
Introduction
What is your reputation?
Explain the importance of reputation and the reputation that some churches may have.
Pray.
Main idea: The local church is vital to the Christian life.
Today, we will identify three impacts the local church has on the life of the believer.
The local church inspires thankfulness.
After Paul has greeted the Roman church, he turns to a bit of a continued greeting in verses 8-15.
Paul has explained in the introduction his apostolic authority as well as his calling to make Christ known among the Gentiles.
Now, Paul expresses thanksgiving for this church.
Paul uses the word, first, indicating that he is transitioning into the letter to the Romans.
He states that he thanks God through Jesus for all of these Roman believers.
These were believers that probably met from house to house and Paul is thankful to God for them.
Paul knows exactly to whom thanks should be given as well.
He is thankful to God because it is by God’s grace and sovereignty that these Roman believers have been saved.
Paul is thankful for their salvation.
Likewise, Paul continues to give testimony to his thankfulness.
He states that he is thankful because their faith is proclaimed in all the world.
Now, we can understand that their faith was not made known throughout the entirety of the world.
However, their faith was proclaimed or made known by many in the surrounding areas.
Their faith was so testified about that it made its way to Paul.
Paul had never visited the Roman Church.
Yet, Paul who was certainly well-known by the early church is writing to them.
They had such strong faith that he felt inclined to be thankful for them and to write to them.
This was a small church.
The Roman Church was a seemingly insignificant church.
Yet, their strong faith in Christ Jesus was characteristic of their church.
This was their reputation.
They were known for their faith.
Regardless of their size or their building, they were a church that was devoted to Christ.
They were leaning into Christ with faith.
This caused for Paul to be thankful for them.
Application: Are you thankful for your church?
It is my prayer that whenever you think of The Church at River Mills you are immediately overcome with thanksgiving.
Furthermore, the Roman church was characterized by their strong faith.
Part of our vision is to be the strongest church in Limestone County over the next five years.
This is not a vision to be the best or greatest or have the nicest things.
This is a vision for our church to be strong in our convictional standings upon God’s Word.
It is a vision for our church to be strong in discipling believers to grow in Christ.
To be strong in our fellowship and love for one another.
TO be strong in our evangelism here in Owens/West Limestone and to the ends of the earth.
May we be like the Roman Church.
Their key quality was faith in Jesus Christ.
Our building is small.
Our budget is not large.
But, that does not matter as long as we are faithful to the Gospel.
Faithfulness to the Gospel is the measure of success for a church.
Our measure of success is not found in our numbers, buildings, budget, or programs.
Our success is in commitment to the Gospel.
Commitment to the Gospel is found in transformation by the Gospel.
The Gospel transforms our lives in such a way that we are inspired to give thanks to Jesus Christ at all times and respond with obedience to the call to make disciples.
Likewise, our faith causes us to look different.
Our faith makes us thankful to God because of how He has saved us.
That calls for us to be different to fellow believers and unbelievers.
As the local church, we must be faithful to reach out to one another when someone is sick or in the hospital.
We must be faithful to pray for one another and work for the bond of unity within the church.
We must seek to be faithful and growing in the Word as we are devoted to the Sunday morning gathering.
We must be faithful to weep with those who weep and rejoice with those who rejoice.
WE must be a church that is rooted in our faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and take it to those around us.
In doing so, we will see thanksgiving abound within our midst and the Lord continue to bless our church.
As we are faithful, our faith will be made known.
People may not attend our church, but they will surely know about our church when we are faithful.
The local church is not something we should be passive about.
The local church is the gathering we should long to be a part of above all other earthly offers.
The local church should cause us to overflow with thanksgiving as we know that it is our family in Christ Jesus.
May we be a church that is faithful and thankful for one another.
The local church invests encouragement in the lives of believers.
Just as Paul detailed his thankfulness for the Roman Church.
He also sought to encourage them through prayer and a visit.
Paul appeals to God as his witness.
As Paul seeks to further encourage the Roman church, he appeals to his apostleship.
He is a servant of God as we saw last week in the first seven verses.
Now, Paul points to how he serves.
With his spirit, Paul gives everything he has in service to God.
With his innermost self, Paul serves God.
He is sent by God to serve Christ Jesus through the proclamation of the Gospel.
In this service to God, he ensures the Roman church that he makes mention of them without ceasing in prayer.
He constantly prays for the Roman church to be edified and equipped for ministry.
Likewise, he constantly prays that he will be able to come and visit them.
Paul wants to visit the church; however, he has not been able to visit them up to this point because it has not been God’s will.
God’s will is superior to ours and cannot be thwarted.
As God has prevented Paul from visiting the church, he has enabled Paul the opportunity to write to them.
I want us to look at the reason behind why Paul wants to come to this local church in Rome.
Paul’s longing to see the church in Rome was not for some personal gain or to make his own name known.
Paul was seeking to come and visit the church in Rome in order that he could impart or give some spiritual gift to strengthen them.
Paul is not saying that he will come to visit and impart a gift as though he has all power and authority over them.
He has been called to be an apostle for messenger to the church, yet he will come seeking to encourage them and be encouraged by them.
Paul, though he was set apart by God to be the apostle to the Gentiles, was seeking to be encouraged by the local church.
Illustration: I love to visit with members and membership candidates.
Oftentimes whenever I do visit, y’all have no idea how much I am encouraged by y’all.
I go in seeking to encourage and build up those I visit, and I walk away more encouraged than I probably encouraged.
Paul was longing to visit with them because he wanted to encourage them and knew that he would be encouraged by them.
Paul had a concern and love for the church that drew him to pray for them and long to be with them.
Application: The local church is made up of the body of believers in a community.
As we come together, we pray for one another, hear the preached Word, sing worship to our King, and fellowship with one another.
In that, we are encouraged and built up.
However, the local church does not simply exist one day out of the week.
The local church exists at all times.
We are Christians every single day.
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