Sermon Tone Analysis

Today we come to the last sermon in our series on three questions every church must ask

A. Remember the first two questions Why grow

Why grow

We grow to make a difference

Who leads

pastors lead

deacons serve

members follow

How do we grow, how do we move forward?

This is the word of God

inerrint inspired infalible

written By God

Written for us

that we might know how to live

and that on its pages we might meet a living Christ.

This Is the Word of God

inerrent infalible inspired

written by God

written for us

that we might know how to live

and that on its pages we might meet a living christ

Why Grow

Introduction

Introduction

To make an impsct

Introduction

2. Who Leads

A. the Problem with Church growth

Pastors lead

deacons serve

Members follow

growth at any cost

3.

Today we are going to ask the question How do we grow

many churches want growth at any cost

These churches:

Compromise doctrine

How do we move foward

they don’t expect too much

they ignore sin

they don’t teach on controversial subjects

they make church about everything but the gospel and it’s implications for our lives

they do this because they do not want to lose anyone, they just want as many people as they can get.

What needs to be avoided

Growth at any cost

Growth at any cost

We will not Compromise on doctrine

anti-intellectualism in the church is not healthy

we need to have the same fundamental beliefs

if we have different doctrinal beliefs we will never grow together

It is important, however, that we make a distinction between what is doctrine and what is not

The virgin birth is doctrine

What we wear to church is not

The return of Christ is doctrine

How many services we have is not

The fact that the Lords supper is only a representation is doctrine

The vergin birth is doctorine

how often we observe it is not

The trinity is doctrine

What song we sing is not

As we move forward at this church one thing, I would like to do in the near future is have some teaching time on what we believe outside of the preaching we will go through what we believe and why we believe it, so look forward to that

if we are not growing in our knowledge we will stay Biblical pre-schoolers

As long as I am the pastor of this Church:

We will not compromise doctorine

2. We will expect excellence

Growth at any cost

many church’s want growth at any cost.

They

3. We will not ignore sin

Compromize doctorine

dont expect to much

they ignore sin

they don’t teach on contrivisial subjects

they make church about everything But the gospel and it’s implications for our lives

4. We will teach on subjects that are controversial as long as they are found in the Bible

they do this because they do not want to lose anyone, they just want as many people as they can get.

As long as I am the Pastor of evangel Baptist church we will never be a church that is

Growth at any cost

we will not compromize doctorine

anti-intelectualisim in the church is not healthy

We need to have the same fundemental beliefs

if we have different doctrineal beliefs we will never grow well together

it is importent though that we make a distiction over what is doctrine and what is not

What we wear to church is not

The return of Christ is doctorine

How many services we have is not

The fact that the Lords supper is only a representation is doctorine

how often we observe it is not

The trinity is doctorine

What song we sing is not

As we move foward at this church one thing I would like to do in the near future is have some teaching time on what we belive outside of the preaching we will go through what we believe and why we believe it, so look foward to that

if we are not growing in our knowledge we will stay Biblical pre-schoolers

We will expect excelence

We will not ignore sin

we will teach on Subjects that our contrivisial as long as they ore found in the Bible

We will make church about the Gospel and it’s implication for our lives

The teaching in theese churches becomes your best life now and the life you want instead of how christ calls us to pick up our cross and follow him

Christ comands his deciples to take up their cross and follow Him.

note the implications of taking up your cross

Remember why we grow?

We grow to make a difference in our comunity