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Church Membership
Acts 20:17-38:
Acts 20:
18-21: Past: Own ministry as an example
22-27: Future: Warned of coming heresies
32-35: Present
Membership and Leadership
Elders= presbyterio= elder, pastor, overseers
Verse 20: Did not shrink: He declared all they needed to know
The Beauty of Accountability
Verse 28: Pay attention to authority
Elders= presbyterio= elder, pastor, overseers
Elders= presbyterio= elder, pastor, overseers
Verse 20: Did not shrink: He declared all they needed to know
Verse 28: Pay attention to authority
Membership is Adherence to Authority (Elders- presbyerio)
Issues of Membership:
Membership is Adherence to Authority (Elders- presbyerio)
Leadership
Serving with humility, tears, and trials (vs.19)
Paul’s case, it was against a smear campaign.
Teaching
Anything that was profitable
Public, house to house
Testifying both to Jews and to Greeks of repentance toward God
Leaders are Shepherds
Leaders are Shepherds
Verse 28: Be careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God which he obtained with his own blood?
Verse 28:
Be careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God which he obtained with his own blood?
Church is bought by Jesus, therefore we need to maintain it and care for it with diligence.
Game of Thrones and Kevin DeYoung
The Benefits of Membership
The Comfort of Protection
The Comfort of Protection
Fierce wolves will come, not sparing the flock
Fierce wolves will come, not sparing the flock
People will pop up speaking twisted things to draw away disciples
Membership Means Growth
Therefore, be alert!
Therefore, be alert!
Therefore, be alert!
Bible knowledge is important!
Bible knowledge is important!
Bible knowledge is important!
Gospel is important.
Membership requires Mission
To God and to the word of his grace which builds us up.
To God and to the word of his grace which builds us up.
Not about money or personal gain.
Commended to reach out: Help the weak!
“It is more blessed to give than to receive.”
Membership Leads to Intimacy
3. Membership Leads to Intimacy
Membership Leads to Intimacy
End with airplane club video
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