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DISCOVER My Church
WHAT MAKES BCC A FAMILY?
Four Things Unite Us:
Our Salvation - What God Had Done For Us)
Our Statements - (Why We Exist As A Church)
Our Strategy - (How We Fulfill Our Purpose)
Our Structure - (When & Where We Fulfill Our Purpose)
SESSION 1: Our Salvation
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WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE A CHRISTIAN?
How do people seek happiness?
Real happiness come from understanding my PURPOSE.
1.WHY AM I HERE?
A. God made me to LOVE me!
B. We were created to ENJOY a personal relationship with God and to MANAGE all the rest of God’s creation!
This makes us special!
Gen 1:
C. When we know and love God and live in harmony with His purpose for our lives, it PRODUCES all kinds of POSITIVE RESULTS in our lives.
= CLEAR CONSCIENCE | = CONFIDENCE | = HELP WITH WEAKNESS
THIS IS THE KIND OF LIFESTYLE GOD INTENDS FOR US TO LIVE.
WHY THEN AREN’T MOST PEOPLE REALLY HAPPY?
2. WHAT IS THE PROBLEM?
Man has a natural desire to BE BOSS and to ignore God’s principles for living.
The bible call this attitude SIN.
Sin is a biblical word that means “TO MISS THE MARK.
Key Word: REBELLION
WHEN OUR RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IS NOT RIGHT, IT CAUSES PROBLEMS IN EVERY AREA OF OUR LIVES - MARRIAGE, CAREER, RELATIONSHIPS, FINANCES, ETC.
WHEN PEOPLE HAVE PROBLEMS, THEY OFTEN TRY MANY DIFFERENT WAYS OF COPING BEFORE TURNING TO GOD.
The Bible teaches us that our attempts lead to DEATH.
A relationship with God is NOT based on anything you DO.
3. WHAT IS THE SOLUTION?
JESUS HAS ALREADY TAKEN CARE ON YOUR SIN PROBLEM.
4. WHAT DOES GOD WANT ME TO DO?
A. ADMIT that God has not been first place in your life and ask Him to forgive your sins.
B. BELIEVE that Jesus died to pay for you sins and that He rose again on Easter, and is alive today.
C. REPENTANCE is necessary for salvation.
One cannot truly believe unless he or she repents, and one cannot truly repent unless he or she believes.
D. ACCEPT God’s free gift of salvation.
Don’t try to earn it.
Ephesians
OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD IS NOT RESTORED BY ANYTHING WE DO, BUT ON THE BASIS OF WHAT JESUS ALREADY DID FOR US!
E. INVITE Jesus Christ into your life and be the director (Lord) of your life.
John
"Dear Jesus, thank you for making me and loving me even when I've ignored You and gone my own way.
I realize I need You in my life and I'm sorry for my sins.
I ask You to forgive me.
Thank You for dying on the cross for me.
Please help me to understand it more.
As much as I know how, I want to follow You from now on.
Please come into my life and make me a new person inside.
I accept Your gift of salvation.
Please help me to grow as a Christian.
Amen."
The Bible says that there are two symbols we need to be involved in to remind us of the decision we've made, BAPTISM and the LORD’S SUPPER.
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING BAPTIZED
WHY SHOULD I BE BAPTIZED?
A. To follow the example set by Christ.
B. Because Christ COMMANDS it.
C. It demonstrates that I'm really a BELIEVER.
2. WHAT IT THE MEANING OF BAPTISM?
A. It illustrates Christ's BURIAL and resurrection.
B. Baptism illustrates my new life as a Christian.
B. Baptism illustrates my new life as a Christian.
3. WHY BE BAPTIZED BY IMMERSION?
A. Because Jesus was BAPTIZED that way.
B. Every baptism in the BIBLE was by immersion.
C. The word “baptize” means “to DIP IN water.”
D. It best symbolized a burial and resurrection!
The founders of denominations agree about this.
Martin Luther (Lutherans) said, "I would have those who are to be baptized to be entirely immersed as the word imports and the mystery signifies."
John Calvin (Presbyterians) "The word `baptize' signifies to immerse.
It is certain that immersion was the practice of the ancient church."
John Wesley (Methodists) "Buried with Him, alludes to baptizing by immersion according to the custom of the first church."
4. WHO SHOULD BE BAPTIZED?
Every person who has BELIEVED in Christ.
At BCC, we wait until our children are old enough to believe and understand the true meaning of baptism before we baptize them.
At BCC, we wait until our children are old enough to believe and understand the true meaning of baptism before we baptize them.
There are many churches that practice the baptism of confirmation.
This ceremony is intended to be a covenant between the parents and God on the behalf of the child.
The parents promise to raise their child in the faith until the child is old enough to make his own confession of faith.
This custom only began about 300 years after the Bible was finished.
It's not in the Bible.
It's just a tradition.
This is different than the baptism talked about in the Bible, which was only for those old enough to believe.
The purpose is to publicly confess your personal commitment to Christ.
5. WHEN SHOULD I GET BAPTIZED?
As soon as you BECOME a believer!
There is no reason to delay.
As soon as you have decided to receive Christ into your life you can and should be baptized.
If you wait until you are “perfect,” you will never feel “good enough.”
The next Baptism Info Meeting is the 2nd Weekend after each service in our conversational nooks.
FAQS ABOUT BAPTISM
THE MEANING OF COMMUNION
It's interesting that Jesus never asked His disciples to remember His birth, but He did instruct them to remember His death and resurrection.
He gave the church two visible symbols called ordinances.
We do not call Baptism and the Lord's Supper, sacraments.
We don't call them that because the word sacrament means it saves you.
We don't believe baptism saves you and we don't believe the Lord's Supper saves you.
The Bible says they are symbols of your salvation, not things that make you saved.
So technically they are not sacraments.
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