Sermon Text: 1 Corinthians 12:12-20
Sermon Title: “Why Church Membership?”
Sermon Slides:
SLIDE 1 – Sermon Title SlideSLIDE 2 – Today’s Big Idea: When We Have a Higher View of the Church …We Will Have a Healthier View of Church Membership.
SLIDE 3 – Point 1: Why Membership? It Joins Us Into the Church’s True Nature. (1 Cor. 12:12-20)SLIDE 4 – Ephesians 4:15-16 – “We are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped … makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.”SLIDE 5 – Insert a Copy of Point #1 of SermonSLIDE 6 – 1 Corinthians 11:23-27 – “For .. on the night when he [Jesus] was betrayed took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, ‘This is my body, which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.’ In the same way also he took the cup … saying, ‘This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this … in remembrance of me’ … Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty concerning the body and blood of the Lord.”SLIDE 7 – Insert a Copy of Point #1 of Sermon
SLIDE 8 – Point 2: Why Membership? It Connects Us To the Church’s Whole Mission.(Gen. 1:28; Matt. 28:19)SLIDE 9 – Genesis 1:26-28 – “Then God said, ‘Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea … the birds of the heavens … the livestock and over all the earth …’ So God created man in his own image … male and female he created them … And God said to them, ‘Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.’”SLIDE 10 – Matthew 28:18-20 – “And Jesus came and said to them, ‘All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you.’”SLIDE 11 – Insert a Copy of Point #2 of Sermon
SLIDE 12 – Four Uses of This Sermon for Our Church and Lives.SLIDE 13 – Before Becoming a Church Member, You Must Become a ‘Christ Member’.SLIDE 14 – “For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.”SLIDE 15 – Three Godly Benefits of Church Membership:SLIDE 16 – Church Membership Provides Us … A Better Testimony to the World.SLIDE 17 – Church Membership Provides Us … A Better Identity in Jesus Christ.SLIDE 18 – Church Membership Provides Us … A Better Maturity in the Holy Spirit.
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