Box Size Height: 2.6 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.33 Vertical: 4.67 We live in a day of consumer mentality. The church’s Biblical intention is that we gather to give God glory and minister to each other.

Box Size Height: 2.6 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.33 Vertical: 4.67 Metaphors regarding church: – – Ephesians 2:19 – “household of God” – – Ephesians 2:16 – “one body” – – I Corinthians 12:12-22 – – Ephesians 2:21, 21 “ a holy temple”

Box Size Height: 2.6 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.33 Vertical: 4.67 Belonging is at the very heart of Christianity! a) a)Fellowship   I Corinthians 1:9 - Koinonia   I John 1:3, 7   Hebrews 10:23-25   Acts 5:42   Acts 20:20

Box Size Height: 2.6 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.33 Vertical: 4.67 Belonging is at the very heart of Christianity! a) a)Fellowship (cont’d)   What is fellowship? – – “The one anothers” – – Sharing your spiritual gift

Box Size Height: 2.6 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.33 Vertical: 4.67 Belonging is at the very heart of Christianity! b) b)Loyalty   Loyalty to any family is critical.

Box Size Height: 2.6 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.33 Vertical: 4.67 Belonging is at the very heart of Christianity! c) c)Ministry   Ephesians 4:11, 12 – “equipping to serve”   Ephesians 4:13   You are not a spectator!   You are not a consumer!   You are a servant of Christ the Lord!

Box Size Height: 2.6 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.33 Vertical: 4.67 Belonging is at the very heart of Christianity! c) c)Truth Proclaimed   I Timothy 4:1-6   II Timothy 4:1-5

Box Size Height: 2.6 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.33 Vertical: 4.67 How Does It Happen? – – Have healthy expectations. – – Baby steps are okay. – – Take some ownership.

Box Size Height: 2.6 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.33 Vertical: 4.67 Scriptures

Box Size Height: 2.6 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.33 Vertical: 4.67 Ephesians 2:19 19 Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God.

Box Size Height: 2.6 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.33 Vertical: 4.67 Ephesians 2:16 16 and that He might reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross, thereby putting to death the enmity.

Box Size Height: 2.6 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.33 Vertical: 4.67 I Corinthians 12: For as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ. 13 For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free—and have all been made to drink into[c] one Spirit. 14 For in fact the body is not one member but many. 15 If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I am not of the body,” is it therefore not of the body?

Box Size Height: 2.6 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.33 Vertical: 4.67 I Corinthians 12: And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I am not of the body,” is it therefore not of the body? 17 If the whole body were an eye, where would be the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where would be the smelling? 18 But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body just as He pleased. 19 And if they were all one member, where would the body be? 20 But now indeed there are many members, yet one body.

Box Size Height: 2.6 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.33 Vertical: 4.67 I Corinthians 12: And the eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you”; nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.” 22 No, much rather, those members of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary.

Box Size Height: 2.6 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.33 Vertical: 4.67 Ephesians 2:21 21 in whom the whole building, being fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord

Box Size Height: 2.6 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.33 Vertical: 4.67 I Corinthians 1:9 9 God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

Box Size Height: 2.6 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.33 Vertical: 4.67 I John 1:3,7 3 that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us; and truly our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ. 7 But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.

Box Size Height: 2.6 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.33 Vertical: 4.67 I John 1:7 7 But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.

Box Size Height: 2.6 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.33 Vertical: 4.67 Hebrews 10: Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful. 24 And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, 25 not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.

Box Size Height: 2.6 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.33 Vertical: 4.67 Acts 5:42 42 And daily in the temple, and in every house, they did not cease teaching and preaching Jesus as the Christ.

Box Size Height: 2.6 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.33 Vertical: 4.67 Acts 20:20 20 how I kept back nothing that was helpful, but proclaimed it to you, and taught you publicly and from house to house

Box Size Height: 2.6 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.33 Vertical: 4.67 Ephesians 4: And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, 12 for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ

Box Size Height: 2.6 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.33 Vertical: 4.67 Ephesians 4:13 13 till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ

Box Size Height: 2.6 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.33 Vertical: 4.67 I Timothy 4:1-6 1 Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons, 2 speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a hot iron, 3 forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. 4 For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be refused if it is received with thanksgiving; 5 for it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.

Box Size Height: 2.6 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.33 Vertical: 4.67 I Timothy 4:1-6 6 If you instruct the brethren in these things, you will be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished in the words of faith and of the good doctrine which you have carefully followed.

Box Size Height: 2.6 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.33 Vertical: 4.67 II Timothy 4:1-5 1 I charge you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at His appearing and His kingdom: 2 Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching. 3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; 4 and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables.

Box Size Height: 2.6 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.33 Vertical: 4.67 II Timothy 4:1-5 5 But you be watchful in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.

Box Size Height: 2.6 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.33 Vertical: 4.67 Belonging is at the very heart of Christianity! c) c)Truth Proclaimed   Truth protects you   Truth covers you   Truth nurtures you