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Intro & Recap Exegetical Point: Jesus’ saved body is equipped with varying gifts for varying service. Application point: Find your gifts and use them! Kids, What do you think is your most important body part? Eyes? Ears? Legs? Let me tell you a story... Liv. 2.32 - Paraphrase Menenius Agrippa from about…

Do I really need to be a member of the Church? It seems in life everyone wants you to become a member of their group or club or company. whether it be for Costco, the library a political party, or a gym, it seems like everyone wants your membership so what to we normally do? for most of us we weigh the…

The concept of church membership runs throughout the Bible. God talks about his Church being a family , a building , a nation , a kingdom and a body . One of the most important Greek words in the New Testament is koinonia , which means fellowship, community or oneness. Why become a Member? As a young…

Introduction & Recap The Need for Good Leaders You know it. I know it. We need good leaders. We need good leaders. You want your kids school to have a good principal. You want your manager at work to be a great leader. You want our mayor, premier and prime minister to be really good at their job and…

Being a member of a local visible NT church is a Biblical necessity and it defines for us more closely what a church is, and what each member's responsibilites or duties ential.

Our tongues have great power to accomplish good and evil.

Masks - What You Do Affects Me That’s a funny mask. Let’s play spot the goat. It’s a trick, they are all goats wearing masks. If I had told you one year ago today that masks would be all the rage in a years time, you would have called me a crazy person. Now it seems rare, scandalous even, to see the…

Pastor Don Ford digs into what it means to be a Church Member? What should Church Members be expected to do?

†CALL TO WORSHIP Psalm 27:4 , 8 Paul Mulner, Elder Minister : People of God, the Lord calls you,“Seek my face.” Congregation : One thing I have asked from the Lord, that I shall seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to meditate…

ME: Intro Does anyone else have a typical go to for breakfast most mornings? We live in such a busy paced culture that it is usually something quick, right? That’s the case for me. My go to are those Jimmy Dean breakfast sandwiches. Man, I think those are so good. The 5&10 doesn’t help my problem, Because…

Introduction Greetings… Theme: Lessons From 1 Corinthians Hope: To draw closer to God through a better understanding of the various doctrines within the book of 1 Corinthians. Now we left off two weeks ago looking at 1 Corinthians 12:1-11 wherein talked about the context. The church in Corinth struggled…

ME: Intro I had gone back and forth on whether to share this story, But I just could not resist. So, I will give a preemptive warning, What I am about to say, May be icky to some of you. So, if you are grossed out easy, You may want to plug your ears. Speaking of ears, A couple weeks ago, I was q-tipping…

Encounter God’s Transforming Love - It is the promise of resurrection. Whoever you are and whatever you have been through, there is hope. You can say that God is real and that God is good because you are living proof!

ME: Intro As you may know, I enjoy myself a good Marvel movie. Most recently, Disney+ has released Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Which does a fantastic job at memorializing Chadwick Boseman, The actor who played Black Panther, Who sadly passed away before they could finish this sequel. If you are like…

This lesson on Romans 12:9-21, was taught on Sunday, January 22, 2023 by Pastor Dick Bickings at New Life Bible Fellowship Church, Millsboro, DE.

ME: Intro - Pivot If you are familiar with the TV show, Friends, There is a relatively iconic scene,` Where one of the friends, Ross, Buys a new couch. But instead of paying the delivery fee, He says he only lives a few blocks away, So, he decides to carry it himself. When he gets to his apartment building,…

Important books to not be named in... (prison, current criminal investigations / convictions, death row etc.) OPPOSITE: (wealthy, wise, etc.) Is "Membership" in the local congregation is a biblical concept / mandate?! (discuss) What is the earliest example of membership in the bible? It was a family / that God made into a nation... What is the book of Life? The purpose of local membership at Salem: To fulfill the two great commandments for the appointed season...

ME: Intro - How can you tell if someone is truly saved. I would like to start this morning with three different case studies followed by a question. Case study one is a guy who first heard about Christianity at a youth group event in high school. From that point on, he was hooked. He always seemed to…

I Wonder--Why Bother with Church? In other words, does it really matter if we are part of a local church? Isn't it enough if I just have personal relationship with Jesus? And does church membership matter? We may have asked this question, or we may have lots of reasons we do not like the local church (somebody hurt me; the church is filled with hypocrites.) Today's message will examine that question.

Langston Hughes “I was saved from sin when I was going on thirteen. But not really saved… There was a big revival at my Auntie Reed’s church. Every night for weeks there had been much preaching, singing, praying, and shouting, and some very hardened sinners had been brought to Christ, and the membership…

Grace Fellowship in Rusk, Texas Sunday, August 7, 2022 at 10:30 AM

Introduction We saw from last week that because all of redemption is of and from God from start to finish, our response is to present our bodies as living sacrifices, which, because of the mercies of God, is holy and acceptable. As a result, we will not conform to this world, but be transformed by having…