1. “Sound” 1 Timothy 1:10 “doctrine” 2 Timothy 4:3 “doctrine”
Titus 1:9 “doctrine”
1 Timothy 6:3 “wholesome”
Titus 1:13 “in faith”

2. “Sound”
Hugiaino; to have sound health, be well (in body); figuratively, to be uncorrupt (true in doctrine)

3. “A Sound Church”
“Opposes Societies & Unscriptural Cooperative Arrangements as adjuncts to the church.” Some are run by a “Pastor” Filled with worldliness This is Not Soundness

4. “A Sound Church”
Filled with Adulterers & Adulteresses False Teaching on Marriage, Divorce and Remarriage This Is Not Soundness!

5. A “Sound Church”- is NOT:
One With a “Name” Sardis – Revelation 3:1 Not a Sound Church! Laodicea – Revelation 3:15-17 “wretched, miserable, poor, blind & naked.”

6. A “Sound Church”- is NOT:
One With Right Doctrine Ephesus – Acts 20:20,26,27,31; 1 Timothy 1:3 Revelation 2:1,2,4,5 “left your first love” “I will come to you quickly & remove your lampstand.. Unless you repent”

7. A “Sound Church”- is NOT:
One With Right Doctrine Corinth – Acts 18:8 “hearing, believed & baptized” Acts 18:10,24; 19:1 1 Corinthians 1:5-7; 15:1; 3:1-4 “walked as men”; Chapters 5 & 11

8. A Sound Church IS: One that seeks Scriptural Organization-
1. Scripturally Un-Organized – Acts 14:23
2. Scripturally Organized – Philippians 1:1
3. Unscripturally Organized – Unqualified Men Serving – 3 John 9
4. Unscripturally Unorganized – Qualified Men Not Appointed – Titus 1:5

9. A Sound Church IS: One where All Members Know Their Place-
Elders are Not Followers – 1 Peter 5:2
Deacons are Not “semi-elders” – 1 Timothy 3:9
Evangelists are Not Errand Boys or Handymen – and Not the “Pastor.”
Saints Not just Pew Fillers who work through others – 1 Corinthians 15:58

10. A Sound Church IS: One that demands Plain, Pointed Preaching-
2 Timothy 4:2-4 “preach the word… ready in season & out of season”
Want to be Warned about Dangerous Brethren – Acts 20:28- 32; 1 Timothy 4:1-3; 2 Thessalonians 2:1-3; 2 Peter 2:1; 1 John 4:1

11. A Sound Church IS: One that is Not Content-
Always trying to do BETTER!
Philippians 1:3-5 “fellowship in the gospel”
Philippians 4:10-18 “sent once & again for my necessities”
Philippians 3:13,14 “press on”
Colossians 1:3-6,8,9,10

12. Think about this:
IF the Soundness of this church were determined by your personal soundness – would it be Sound in the Eyes of the Lord?