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Welcome! www.SunsetChurchofChrist.net
Bibles and copies of sermons are available Please silence your cell phones Sunday Bible Classes 9:30 AM Worship 10:30 AM 5:30 PM Wednesday Bible Classes 7:00 PM
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Acts 12: Peter and Herod Peter’s arrest and miraculous release The church’s response Peter’s departure Herod’s fate
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Welcome! www.SunsetChurchofChrist.net
Bibles and copies of sermons are available Please silence your cell phones Sunday Bible Classes 9:30 AM Worship 10:30 AM 5:30 PM Wednesday Bible Classes 7:00 PM
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Serve the LORD with gladness; Come before His presence with singing.
Psalm 100:2 Serve the LORD with gladness; Come before His presence with singing. Hymns Invitation Red Songbook - Supplemental
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Signs of a Healthy Church
Mt 9:12 But when Jesus heard this, He said, "It is not those who are healthy who need a physician, but those who are sick.” When Jesus checks up on a church (as in Rev 2-3) is it not a Doctor’s checkup?
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7 Church Check-Up: Revelation 2-3
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7 Church Check-Up: Revelation 2-3
Ephesus – Smyrna – Pergamum – Thyatira – Sardis – Philadelphia – Laodicea –
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7 Church Check-Up: Revelation 2-3
Ephesus – Intolerance good, love bad - Smyrna – Pergamum – Thyatira – Sardis – Philadelphia – Laodicea –
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7 Church Check-Up: Revelation 2-3
Ephesus – Intolerance good, love bad - Smyrna – Pergamum – Thyatira – Sardis – Philadelphia – Laodicea –
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7 Church Check-Up: Revelation 2-3
Ephesus – Intolerance good, love bad - Smyrna – Remaining faithful in difficulty - Pergamum – Thyatira – Sardis – Philadelphia – Laodicea –
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7 Church Check-Up: Revelation 2-3
Ephesus – Intolerance good, love bad - Smyrna – Remaining faithful in difficulty - Pergamum – Remain faithful, tolerant of sin - Thyatira – Sardis – Philadelphia – Laodicea –
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7 Church Check-Up: Revelation 2-3
Ephesus – Intolerance good, love bad - Smyrna – Remaining faithful in difficulty - Pergamum – Remain faithful, tolerant of sin - Thyatira – Good deeds, tolerant of sin - Sardis – Philadelphia – Laodicea –
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7 Church Check-Up: Revelation 2-3
Ephesus – Intolerance good, love bad - Smyrna – Remaining faithful in difficulty - Pergamum – Remain faithful, tolerant of sin - Thyatira – Good deeds, tolerant of sin - Sardis – Appear healthy, but dead - Philadelphia – Laodicea –
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7 Church Check-Up: Revelation 2-3
Ephesus – Intolerance good, love bad - Smyrna – Remaining faithful in difficulty - Pergamum – Remain faithful, tolerant of sin - Thyatira – Good deeds, tolerant of sin - Sardis – Appear healthy, but dead - Philadelphia – Good deeds and strong - Laodicea –
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7 Church Check-Up: Revelation 2-3
Ephesus – Intolerance good, love bad - Smyrna – Remaining faithful in difficulty - Pergamum – Remain faithful, tolerant of sin - Thyatira – Good deeds, tolerant of sin - Sardis – Appear healthy, but dead - Philadelphia – Good deeds and strong - Laodicea – You think you are well, but not -
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7 Church Check-Up Reveals:
Churches can be Healthy, Dying, or Dead Jesus is NOT with a dead church How can we determine a church’s health?
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The Local Church Health Exam
Perceived importance of the assembly - Is worship central to the assembly? - Do members appreciate its importance? - Do members work to assemble? Health condition: LOVE OF GOD
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The Local Church Health Exam
Perceived importance of discipline in the church - Is sin tolerated among the members? - Do members willingly allow for inspection? - Is there an attitude of the Lord’s will? Health condition: LOVE OF TRUTH
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The Local Church Health Exam
Perceived importance of the brethren - Is the love of the brethren apparent? - Do members sacrifice for one another? - Do members work to assemble? Health condition: LOVE OF BRETHREN
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Non-Symptoms Size of the congregation Contribution Numeric growth Attention in the community Healthy in some areas
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What Can An Individual Do?
Remain pure – Revelation 2:24-25 Be unafraid – Revelation 2:10 Revitalize your priorities – Revelation 3:2-3 Have zealous behavior – Revelation 3:19 Re 2:24 'But I say to you, the rest who are in Thyatira, who do not hold this teaching, who have not known the deep things of Satan, as they call them--I place no other burden on you. 25 'Nevertheless what you have, hold fast until I come.
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