1. Your Part 2: Devote yourself 1 Timothy 4
Future Church
Your Part 2: Devote yourself 1 Timothy 4

2. The church in the future will not be the same!
A more appreciative community
A more aspiring community
A more worshipful community
A more loving community
The church at Ephesus with Jesus as King
The church at Ephesus

3. Future church is not just a big vision for you to nod to
God wants this loving, worshipping, aspiring, thankful community to be…
Bible based
Encouraging
Centred on the mind of Christ
Future church is not just a big vision for you to nod to
It’s NOT something that will happen on its own
It will not happen without people giving an example

4. Your part in making future church happen
Train yourself (1 Tim 4:7)
In godliness (respecting and engaging with God)
In training it doesn’t matter if we fail
Devote yourself (1 Tim 4:12)
To the reading (of the scriptures)
To the preaching (lit. to exhortation)
Urging people to positive action
To the teaching (didaskalia)
The active engagement with it so that you know the mind of Christ