1. The Church

3. The church is the community of all true believers for all time.

4. Deuteronomy 4:10
“Gather the people to me, that I may let them hear my words, so that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live on earth, and that they may teach their children so.”

5. 1 Corinthians 1:2-3
“To the church of God in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus and called to be his holy people, together with all those everywhere who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ – their Lord and ours: Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.”

6. The life and activity and resources of the Church should center around THE BELIEVERS GATHERING TOGETHER!

7. “Being” the Church requires MEETING TOGETHER!

8. Hebrews 10:23-25
“Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful. And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and goo deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another – and all the more as you see the Day approaching.”

9. The Value of the Biblical Church
They experienced God!

10. The Value of the Biblical Church
They experienced God!
They found real answers to tough questions!

11. The Value of the Biblical Church
They experienced God!
They found real answers to tough questions!
They built relationships with fellow believers!

12. The Value of the Biblical Church
They experienced God!
They found real answers to tough questions!
They built relationships with fellow believers!
They taught biblical values to the next generation!

13. The Value of the Biblical Church
They experienced God!
They found real answers to tough questions!
They built relationships with fellow believers!
They taught biblical values to the next generation!
They served others!

14. Romans 15:6
“so that with one mind and one voice you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.”

15. How do we bring glory to our Lord?
Exalt the Lord

16. 1 Colossians 3:17
“And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.”

17. Matthew 18:20
“For where two or three gather in my name, there I am among them.”

18. Psalm 22:3
“Thou art holy, O God. You inhabit the praises of your people.”

19. How do we bring glory to our Lord?
Exalt the Lord
Equip the Saints

20. Ephesians 4:11-16
And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes. Rather, speaking the truth in love, 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, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.

21. How do we bring glory to our Lord?
Exalt the Lord
Equip the Saints
Evangelize the Lost

22. Matthew 28:19-20
“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. And behold, I am with you always to the end of the age.”

23. Worship
Instruction
Fellowship
Evangelism

24. The “one another” commands
Encourage and build up one another (Rom 14:19; 1 Thess 5:11; Heb 3:13)
Accept one another (Rom 15:7)
Suffer with one another (1 Cor 12:26)
Bear one another’s burdens (Gal 6:2; Col 3:13)
Be kind to one another (Eph 4:32a)
Forgive one another (Eph 4:32b)
Sing with one another (Eph 5:19)
Be subject to one another (Eph 5:19)
Teach one another (Col 3:16)
Comfort one another (1 Thess 4:18)
Confess sins to one another (Jas 5:16a)
Pray for one another (Jas 5:16b)
Be devoted to one another (Rom 12:10)
Love one another (John 13:34; Rom 13:8; 1 Pet 4:8)
Comfort one another (1 Thess 4:18)
Confess sins to one another (Jas 5:16a)
Pray for one another (Jas 5:16b)
Pet 4:9).
Serve one another (1 Pet 4:10)
Do not judge one another (Rom 14:13)
Do not envy one another (Gal 5:26b)
Do not lie to one another (Col 3:9)
Do not complain against one another (Jas 5:9)