1. The Social Gospel
A Special Series

2. The Social Gospel A Series 1. Gospel is a Redemptive Message
2. The Distinction in Individual & Church
3. History of Social Gospel Movement
4. What Builds Faith, Edifies & Causes Growth
5. Dangers Among Us

3. Gospel Addresses Man’s Need: Sin
Gospel Message
Is A
Redemptive Message
Review #1
Gospel Addresses Man’s Need: Sin

4. III. Maintaining the Distinction
Review #2
I. Individual & Church Are Not the Same
II. Blurring the Lines
III. Maintaining the Distinction

5. Review #3

6. A Great Shift
Spiritual
Social

7. The Social Gospel A Series 1. Gospel is a Redemptive Message
2. The Distinction in Individual & Church
3. History of Social Gospel Movement
4. What Builds Faith, Edifies & Causes Growth
5. Dangers Among Us

8. What Builds Faith, Edifies and Causes Growth

9. Christians Have Spiritual Needs
Grow
2 Peter 3:18
Strengthened
Colossians 1:9-11
Edified
1 Corinthians 14:5
Faith Increased
Luke 17:5; 2 Thessalonians 1:3

10. Christians Have Spiritual Needs How Is That Done?
Some Suggest
Some Think:
Regular attendance?
Acts of Worship?
Preaching?
Study the word?
Association?
Social Relationships?
Fun things together?
Social Activities
Eat
Be together
Games & Activities

11. Social Activities with Other Christians Are Important
Acts 2:46 – broke bread from house to house
Galatians 2:11-14 – Eating together suggests some approval
1 Corinthians 5:9-13 – “company” = mix up together with
2 Thessalonians 3:14 - company

12. A Great Shift
Spiritual
Social

13. I. Faith

14. Faith Is Based Upon Evidence
Hearing and Believed
Acts 18:8
Hear the word and believe
Acts 15:7
Written that we might believe
John 20:30,31
Aimed at heart to convict sinner
Acts 2:37

15. Faith Is Established By Word
“Heard the word & believed”
Acts 4:4
From faith to faith
Romans 1:17
How shall believe…if not heard?
Romans 10:14
Faith produced by hearing
Romans 10:17

16. “So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.”
(Romans 10:17)
Word of God

17. Faith Is Maintained & Strengthened By Word
Strengthened by preaching
Acts 16:4,5
Word builds us up
Acts 20:32
Can cause to remain steadfast and grounded
Colossians 1:23
Will save us
1 Timothy 4:16

18. “So now, brethren, I commend you to God and to the word of His grace, which is able to build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified.”
Acts 20:32

19. If Faith Grows and Is Strengthened By Social
Have subjective standard
Could faith be established same way?
Ask the question to answer it!!

20. A Great Shift
Spiritual
Social

21. I. Faith
II. Edification

22. Edification Edification Defined
Edify
Edify:
NT:3619
1. (the act of) building, building up, 2. equivalent to oikodomeema, a building (i. e., thing built, edifice): Mark 13:1 f
(Thayer)

23. Edification A. Edification defined
B. Edification Based Upon Revelation— Not Enjoyment or Excitement
1 Corinthians 14:1-5

24. “Pursue love and desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy. For he who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God, for no one understands him; however, in the spirit he speaks mysteries..”
1 Corinthians 14:1,2

25. “But he who prophesies speaks edification and exhortation and comfort to men. He who speaks in a tongue edifies himself, but he who prophesies edifies the church.”
1 Corinthians 14:3,4

26. “I wish you all spoke with tongues, but even more that you prophesied; for he who prophesies is greater than he who speaks with tongues, unless indeed he interprets, that the church may receive edification.”
1 Corinthians 14:5

27. 1 Corinthians 14 Tongues Prophecy Revelation Imparting of Knowledge
Exciting—Enjoy
Emotions Stirred
Appeal
Revelation
Imparting of Knowledge
Without Interpretation
No message
No edification
Message is received
Edified

28. Don’t Confuse Edification
1 Pursue love, and desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy.
2 For he who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God, for no one understands him; however, in the spirit he speaks mysteries.
3 But he who prophesies speaks edification and exhortation and comfort to men.
4 He who speaks in a tongue edifies himself, but he who prophesies edifies the church.
5 I wish you all spoke with tongues, but even more that you prophesied; for he who prophesies is greater than he who speaks with tongues, unless indeed he interprets, that the church may receive edification.
Don’t Confuse Edification
&
That Which You Enjoy
Good speaker
Funny stories
Exciting class
Feeling good
Eating good meal
Playing games together
Good conversation (secular)
Social activities

29. Edification A. Edification defined
B. Edification Based Upon Revelation— Not Enjoyment or Excitement
C. Edified By Worship
1. Singing(Ephesians 5:19; Colossians 3:16)
2. Assembling (Hebrews 10:24,25)

30. Edification A. Edification defined
B. Edification Based Upon Revelation— Not Enjoyment or Excitement
C. Edified By Worship
D. Encouraged By Mutual Faith
Romans 1:12

31. A Great Shift
Spiritual
Social

32. I. Faith
II. Edification
III. Growth

33. Growth A. Spiritual Growth Is By The Word
1. 1 Peter 2:2—desire milk of word…grow
2. Ephesians 4:15—speaking truth…grow up…

34. Growth A. Spiritual Growth Is By The Word B. Made Complete By The Word
1. 2 Timothy 3:16,17—scriptures instruct us in righteousness
2. 2 Peter 1:5-10—areas of growth
Based upon faith (vs.5)
Fruit of knowledge (vs.8)
Produced by reminding (vs.12)

35. Growth A. Spiritual Growth Is By The Word B. Made Complete By The Word
C. Strengthened Through Knowledge and Understanding

36. Colossians 1:9-11
Colossians 2:6,7
“For this reason we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;
10 that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God;
11 strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, for all patience and longsuffering with joy.”
“As you have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him,
7 rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving.”

37. A Great Shift
Spiritual
Social

38. I. Faith
II. Edification
III. Growth
IV. Feelings

39. Feelings A. Feelings Are Thought To Be Evidence
1. In Denominationalism—Evidence of pardon
2. In the church—Evidence of edification

40. Feelings A. Feelings Are Thought To Be Evidence
B. Feeling Is Based Upon Evidence

41. Luke 10:20 Feelings Knowledge “Rejoice” “…because your names are
“Nevertheless do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rather rejoice because your names are written in heaven.”
Feelings
“Rejoice”
Knowledge
“…because
your names are
written in
heaven.”
Based Upon
NOT

42. A Great Shift
Spiritual
Social

43. I. Faith
II. Edification
III. Growth
IV. Feelings