Gospel Roots

Main Idea: God disciplines us because he loves us. His purpose is to help his children grow in holiness and humble dependence on him.

Series: Healthy Church

Topic: Church Discipline

Lesson Title: Is Discipline Loving?

Teacher: Adam Michael

Series: Healthy Church

Topic: Membership

Lesson Title: The Glory of Membership

Teacher: Shawn Saylor

Main Idea: Church membership—and the activity of regularly assembling with the church which it entails—should offer a foretaste of the glory of heaven.

Series: Healthy Church

Topic: Membership

Lesson Title: The Duties of Membership

Teacher: Scott Cunningham

Main Idea: As church members, we have the duty to imitate and submit to our leaders, to regularly assemble with the church, and to love and serve our fellow members. All of these duties are means by which we grow in godliness and help others to grow.

Series: Healthy Church

Topic: Membership

Lesson Title: The Nature of Membership

Teacher: Shawn Saylor

Main Idea: The members of a local church are interdependent. We all need each other. No one should say that the church doesn’t need them, and no one can say that they don’t need other church members.

Series: Healthy Church

Topic: Membership

Lesson Title: The Goal and Challenges of Membership

Teacher: Adam Michael

Main Idea: The goal of church membership is that every single church member would help the whole church grow to maturity in Christ. Every member of the church is called to overcome divisions and pursue unity in the church in order to reflect the church’s union with Christ.

Series: Healthy Church

Topic: Membership

Lesson Title: The Mandate for Membership

Teacher: Adam Michael

Main Idea: Is church membership biblical? Yes! We see church membership in a number of passages in the New Testament which teach that: Churches have an “inside” and an “outside.” Church members are expected to know who does and does not belong to the church. Christians are under the authority of the church, such that if they persist in unrepentant sin, they are to be excluded from it. Christians are told to submit to their leaders, which means giving up our autonomy and putting ourselves under the church’s authority. Leaders will give an account for those entrusted to their care, which means that they have to know who those people are.

Series: Healthy Church

Topic: Membership

Lesson Title: The Need for Membership

Teacher: Bryan Kurty

Main Idea: Christians need to be members of a local church so that, through a church’s accountability and exhortation, we are protected from sin’s deceiving, hardening effects.

Series: Exodus

Week: 11

Scripture Covered: Exodus 35:1-40:38

Main Idea: Yahweh’s people build the tabernacle, so He can dwell with His people, but...

Teacher: Bryan Kurty

Series: Exodus

Week: 10

Scripture Covered: Exodus 32:1-34:35

Main Idea: As Moses mediates with Yahweh on behalf of the people who have violated the covenant, Yahweh responds by

revealing His steadfast love and mercy

by renewing His covenant with the people.

Teacher: Brian Grabill

Series: Exodus

Week: 9

Scripture Covered: Exodus 25:1-31:18

Main Idea: Yahweh gives instruction for building the tabernacle, so He can dwell with His people.

Teacher: Shawn Saylor