1. 12:13 Class Rules Need to use the bathroom?
Ask a parent volunteer
Need handouts from last week?
Need to borrow a pen?
Loan us a shoe and we will loan you a pen!
Need to talk with a friend?
Before/after class, but not during

2. What Makes Me A CHRISTIAN?
Understanding Salvation And Sanctification

3. A Christian Is Not… Someone who looks a certain way
Someone who talks a certain way
Someone who acts a certain way
An artificial plant!

4. A Christian Is…
A new creation made alive by the mercy of God through Jesus Christ

5. The Sower The first garden (Genesis 1:26-27)
A ruined crop (Genesis 3:17-19)
God’s new plan (John 3:16)

6. The Soil Hard (Ezekiel 36:26) Dead (Ephesians 2:1-5)
“And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh…”
Dead (Ephesians 2:1-5)
“And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked…”

7. The Seed
“Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.” (John 12:24)

8. Salvation! From God By Christ Thru Faith Forever Ours!
“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you who by God’s power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.” (1 Peter 1:3-5)
From God
By Christ
Thru Faith
Forever Ours!

9. Starting Point 2011 (seniors)
14 chairs
16 chairs
podium
Table for water/OJ
table
Table for coffee/food
Starting Point 2011 (seniors)