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Wha does it mean to be a church member?
Does it mean that I have my name on the rolls so I have a place to be buried?
Does it mean that my name is there so I get in heaven?
What does it mean?
Intro
Can America Survive?
Illus: Article that talks about a divided America and whether or not it can survive?
Can
History is not very kind to multicultural chaos — as opposed to a multiracial society united by a single national culture.
The fates of Rwanda, Iraq, and the former Yugoslavia should remind us of our present disastrous trajectory.
Either the United States will return to a shared single language and allegiance to a common and singular culture, or it will eventually descend into clannish violence.
America barely survived the Civil War of 1861–65, the Great Depression of 1929–39, and the rioting and protests of the 1960s.
But today’s growing divides are additionally supercharged by instant Internet and social-media communications, 24/7 cable news, partisan media, and the denigration of America’s past traditions.
All Americans need to take a deep breath, step back, and rein in their anger — and find more ways to connect rather than divide themselves.
They should assume their opponents are not all sinners, and that their supporters are not all saints.
Things are bad now.
But our own history suggests that if we are not careful, they can get even worse.
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/448643/divided-america-people-must-connect-america-survive
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/448643/divided-america-people-must-connect-america-survive
There is a problem in our churches today.
Decline and division
Folks, we have much to say about how America responds to this division.
We can be a grand influence on unity and fellowship -
Rather than the society influencing the church, what if the church influenced society?
Last week we talked about the decline and division of the American church, this week we will look at reconciliation and individuals
Church membership:
A warped understanding of church membership shows us that we have inverted our understanding of church and society
Based on our research of 557 churches from 2004 to 2010, nine out of ten churches in America are declining or growing at a pace that is slower than that of their communities.
Simply stated, churches are losing ground in their own backyards.
Another way of looking at it is generationally.
About two-thirds of the Builder generation, those born before 1946, are Christians.
But only 15 percent of the Millennials are Christians.
The Millennials are the largest generation in America’s history with almost eighty million members.
They were born between 1980 and 2000.
And we have all but lost that generation.
We can blame it on the secular culture.
And we often do.
We can blame it on the godless politics of our nation.
We do that as well.
We can even blame it on the churches, the hypocritical members, and the uncaring pastors.
Lots of Christians are doing that.
But I am proposing that we who are church members need to look in the mirror.
I am suggesting that congregations across America are weak because many of us church members have lost the biblical understanding of what it means to be a part of the body of Christ.
We join our churches expecting others to serve us, to feed us, and to care for us.
We don’t like the hypocrites in the church, but we fail to see our own hypocrisies.
God did not give us local churches to become country clubs where membership means we have privileges and perks.
He placed us in churches to serve, to care for others, to pray for leaders, to learn, to teach, to give, and, in some cases, to die for the sake of the gospel.
Many churches are weak because we have members who have turned the meaning of membership upside down.
It’s time to get it right.
It’s time to become a church member as God intended.
It’s time to give instead of being entitled.
Rainer, Thom S.. I Am a Church Member: Discovering the Attitude that Makes the Difference (Kindle Locations 191-205).
B&H Publishing Group.
Kindle Edition.
Church vows:
(7) In loving obedience, do you submit yourself to the government and discipline of this church, promising to seek the peace, purity, and prosperity of this congregation as long as you are a member of it?
Drama
Paul is appealing to Philemon
He now shows what he is asking
Philemon is being asked to receive Onisemus as a new creation (17)
Obviously this is included in reconciliation
Paul asks for his debt to be covered and forgotten (18-19)
Paul was seeking Philemon to respond - Christlike
Doctrine
Reconciliation:
1) includes receiving someone as God has received you
Paul wants him received as he has been received
a fellow heir of Jesus Christ
2) includes unconditional forgiveness
Paul becomes the mediator
Paul is showing Christ’s love - atonement
Propitiation
Rom
We believe that this atonement is limited to the elect - That Christ died for His elect
The atonement of Christ is sufficient to save all but not applied to all - only God’s elect
Once we understand how great this is: that we are counted among those elect this is an awesome statement
Illus: Edmund in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
After Edmund was rescued from the White Witch, the children wake to Aslan having a conversation with Edmund
Edmund had betrayed his siblings and Aslan.
And Aslan was about to go to the “stone table” to be sacrificed for Edmund to appease the White Witch.
Aslan tells the kids to forgive and forget:
“Here is your brother,” he said, “and—there is no need to talk to him about what is past.”
Excerpt From: C. S. Lewis.
“The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.”
iBooks.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/the-lion-the-witch-and-the-wardrobe/id360625556?mt=11
3) includes a refreshed heart
Paul desired this in order to have joy in unity and reconciliation
The Holy Spirit drives us in this direction
If we have the HS we will be driven toward reconciliation and the joy it brings
Gal 5:22-26
Paul compares this to the way of the world
Gal 5:17
God works within his church to bring reconciliation and not division
The goal here is Koinonia - spiritual fellowship
“your partner” - κοινωνός
Illus: The world is divided while the church is unified
World: divided over many things
gun control - due to mass shootings
Church: united in Christ - spiritually and practically
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